Trump to hold first-ever three-way summit with Xi and Putin next Thursday in China, with a nuclear arms pact on the agenda

President Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin together next Thursday on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, the New York Post reports. It would be the first-ever three-way meeting between the leaders of the countries that hold most of the world's nuclear weapons.

The talks are expected to focus largely on an ambitious nuclear arms control pact, the Post says. A White House official told the paper the discussion could also touch on the war with Iran and on North Korea. Ukraine is another possible topic.

Trump all but confirmed the meeting on Sunday. "One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting," he told reporters. "We'll talk a lot of things, including denuclearization."

Since his first term, Trump has pushed for a deal to cut nuclear stockpiles, arguing it is needlessly costly to keep arsenals big enough to destroy the world many times over. China's foreign ministry has confirmed it is "in communication with relevant parties" about a three-leader meeting.

Trump last met Putin in person in Alaska in August 2025. He hosted Xi at the White House in September. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday.