China Confirms Contact for Trump-Xi-Putin APEC Meeting — SkimNews
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- Mao Ning said on Nov. 4 that China was “maintaining communication” with relevant parties about a potential meeting of Chinese, Russian and U.S. leaders in Shenzhen.
- Trump and Putin have both publicly indicated interest in meeting Xi at November’s APEC summit in Shenzhen.
- APEC’s November summit in Shenzhen is the proposed venue for a China-U.S.-Russia leaders’ meeting that the source says has no modern precedent.
- Russia’s international isolation after the invasion of Ukraine is the concrete stake: the source says the proposed meeting would mark a milestone in Moscow’s effort to break out, with Xi’s potential mediating role between Putin and Trump as a second stated consequence.
- Yalta Conference is the comparison the source offers for the unprecedented format: in 1945, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed Europe’s reorganization as Nazi Germany neared defeat in World War II.
Why it matters: The source presents the proposed format as a milestone for Russia’s effort to break international isolation after the invasion of Ukraine, with Xi as a potential mediator. The Nov. 4 disclosure came two weeks before the Shenzhen summit, so the confirmed development is communication among China, the U.S. and Russia—not the three-leader meeting itself.
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