Trump says Shenzhen talks with Xi and Putin likely

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he expects to meet with President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen scheduled for November 18-19. "Well, I'm going to be going to China," he said, "and one of the meetings I think will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting." He added: "We'll talk a lot of things, including denuclearisation, but we'll be talking a lot of things. We're trying to end the war in Iran." The Kremlin said on October 21 that this first of its kind trilateral meeting is "being prepared". This followed a Wall Street Journal report that Putin wanted the three-way talks to broker a peace deal to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. (AFP) Edited by Tony Sabine