Trump says he would be open to trilateral meeting with Putin, Xi

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President Trump said Monday he has not yet agreed to a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, but he said he is open to it. "I would do it," Trump told reporters on the White House's South Lawn before heading to a midterm rally in Kansas.

President Trump wants to hold a trilateral summit with Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin in China next month to discuss "denuclearization" — but not necessarily Ukraine. Why it matters: Such a summit between the leaders of the U.S., China and Russia would be unprecedented.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing for a trilateral summit with President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine after months of battlefield loses and to establish a new world order — a move that's likely to fail, an expert told The Post.