Trump moves on from election rout to nuclear clout as he heads to Asia
U.S. President Donald Trump is traveling to Asia for an APEC summit in Shenzhen, where he aims to host a trilateral nuclear summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The trip is framed as an attempt to pivot from domestic political scandals to global superpower diplomacy.
Why it matters
The meeting represents a high-stakes attempt to address the vacuum left by the expiration of the New START treaty and manage nuclear proliferation concerns involving China.
TOI Correspondent From Washington: Domestically battered in the mid-term elections, U.S President Donald Trump is heading to Asia next week to restore prestige on the global diplomatic stage by bringing together Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi Jinping in an unprecedented nuclear summit. It is an ambitious attempt to change the conversation from electoral setbacks at home to superpower diplomacy abroad amid an increasingly complicated domestic political landscape that includes a spy sex scandal, a disastrous air traffic fiasco and growing fissures in the Trump cabinet.The Trump-Xi-Putin meeting, scheduled for November 19 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen, will bring together leaders of the world's three most consequential nuclear powers for their first trilateral summit, although all three attended the 2019 G20 gathering.
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