Trump seeks Xi-Putin summit in China on denuclearization — SkimNews
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- Trump wants to hold a trilateral summit with Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin in China next month
- The proposed agenda centers on 'denuclearization,' with the source explicitly noting Ukraine is not necessarily on the table
- A meeting of the U.S., Chinese, and Russian heads of state at this level would be unprecedented
- Other coverage (The Hill's Tillis and O'Reilly pieces) frames the move as evidence of Trump's softer stance toward Putin — an angle the source text itself does not address
Why it matters: By proposing denuclearization as the summit's stated focus while explicitly leaving Ukraine off the agenda, Trump is sequencing great-power nuclear diplomacy ahead of the active Russia-Ukraine war — a prioritization that determines whether Kyiv's territorial fate enters the conversation at all in this format.
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