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WASHINGTON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will hold the first ever three-way meeting between the leaders of the United States, Russia and China at a summit in Shenzhen next week, the White House said Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n Trump wants to talk about reducing nuclear arsenals at the trilateral talks on Thursday and is also set to bring up his war in Iran \u2014 but he is not expected to discuss Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, US officials said.<\/p>\n The three leaders will meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in the southern Chinese city, White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters.<\/p>\n \u201cThe president has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world. This proliferation, President Trump believes, is very dangerous,\u201d Wales said.<\/p>\n One of the major conflicts dominating Trump\u2019s second term as president will feature, but the other will not, the US officials said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the president does intend to talk about Iran in the trilateral meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin,\u201d a senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters on a call.<\/p>\n Washington has a \u201cwhole other track\u201d of negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, the official added, referring to talks that US envoys have had in recent days with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n \u201cChina is not really a part of that track, so it doesn\u2019t seem appropriate to have the Ukraine discussion there,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n Tesla and Space X boss Elon Musk will accompany Trump on his trip to China but won\u2019t be involved in the meeting with Xi and Putin, the officials said.<\/p>\n Trump will also hold a bilateral working lunch and meeting with the Chinese president on Thursday \u2014 their fourth meeting since the US president\u2019s return to power last year.<\/p>\n But Trump is not scheduled to have a separate one-on-one with Putin.<\/p>\n Among other topics, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang\u2019s resignation over an affair with an alleged Chinese spy is not expected to come up in Trump\u2019s meetings with Xi, the officials said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe situation with Nvidia should not really have any bearing on the trip,\u201d a second US senior official said.<\/p>\n The United States also did not plan to discuss export controls on sensitive chip technology, which were at the heart of the Nvidia scandal.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do not negotiate American export controls. These are national security matters that we develop in the administration\u2026 and we don\u2019t expect it to figure at all in any of our conversations with the Chinese while we\u2019re there,\u201d the second official said.<\/p>\n Trump will leave Washington on Monday and arrive in the Philippines on Tuesday for a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) before heading to Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n