Does Trump’s proposal to discuss nuclear weapons at the US-China-Russia summit play into Putin’s hands? The New York Times reveals the plan

The Wall Street Journal exclusively reported on the 19th that during a conversation with US President Trump on the 9th, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the idea of ​​holding a trilateral meeting between the leaders of the United States, China and Russia on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC) summit in Shenzhen, China in November. In this regard, Trump expressed his positive intention and his intention to further expand the scope of the topic, "We will arrange to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization."

The New York Times analyzed that Trump's proposal to negotiate denuclearization issues in a potential three-nation summit fits Putin's inner plan: to expand the scope of discussions at the summit and reduce the importance of the mired Ukraine-Russia war to one of many issues to be dealt with. If the summit comes true, the image of the leaders of the three nuclear-armed powers gathering together may resemble the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II, when Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, the three leaders of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, divided the territory of global influence.

After the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expired in February this year, there is no longer a legal mechanism to limit the long-range nuclear weapons of the United States and Russia, and China has not been included in substantive dialogue on a similar treaty, triggering global concerns about the nuclear arms race among the three major nuclear-arms states, the United States, China and Russia. The Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Beijing has not yet rejected the idea of ​​a trilateral summit, but it is unclear whether Chinese leader Xi Jinping will agree to negotiations on nuclear weapons issues proposed by Trump. China has always refused to participate in relevant meetings to limit the development of nuclear weapons.