The Russian authorities confirmed this Tuesday that there are "works in progress" to try to arrange a summit between the presidents of Russia, the United States and China, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, coinciding with the meeting that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC, for its acronym in English) will hold this month in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
"There are already works in progress to organize that meeting," the Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, pointed out in statements to the British newspaper 'Financial Times'. For its part, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has emphasized that Beijing "is in contact with the relevant parties" with a view to a meeting between Xi and Putin, although without referring at any time to Trump.
Trump is scheduled to travel to China in two weeks to attend the APEC summit in Shenzhen, where he will hold a meeting with Xi, which will be the third between the two in 2026. However, for now there is no official confirmation that a trilateral meeting in which Putin also participates will take place.
Putin himself had already defended last October 21 the advisability of a meeting with Trump and Xi to address the war in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East, "in reference to the conflict opened by the offensive launched in February by the United States and Israel against Iran," taking advantage of the summit of APEC leaders, scheduled for November 18 and 19.