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President Donald Trump said he would be willing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, indicating that his focus would be on denuclearisation efforts rather than ending the war in Ukraine. He said such a meeting would be scheduled around denuclearisation talks, and suggested it could take place in China, where he is due to travel in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and for talks with Xi on the sidelines. No plans for the meeting have been finalised.
Why it matters: The proposal separates nuclear-arms diplomacy among the three powers from the war in Ukraine, a shift with direct consequences for the geopolitics of great-power arms control.