Arya News - China maintains contacts with Russia and the United States on holding a trilateral leaders` summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit next week, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.
The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported on Monday that the US and China could not agree on the format of the trilateral meeting involving US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. China reportedly wants it to be a scripted event, while the US is pushing for a looser format. On November 3, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia, China and the US were working to organize a meeting between the three leaders at the APEC summit, which is set to take place in the Chinese city of Shenzhen from November 18-19.