Trump thinks he will meet Xi and Putin at China APEC summit

US President Donald Trump said ​on Sunday he thinks he will meet Chinese President ‌Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an APEC leaders' summit in China next week and discuss ending the ​war in Iran and denuclearization, Reuters reported.

Trump told reporters before ​flying back to Washington from Florida that he ⁠will travel to China for the APEC summit, ​set for November 18-19 in the southern tech hub ​of Shenzhen.

"One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting. We're talking ​a lot of things, including denuclearization, but we'll ​be talking a lot of things. We're trying to end the ‌war ⁠in Iran," he said.

Trump said in October that he was open to three-way arms control talks with Xi and Putin, which he said would focus on denuclearization.

The Wall ​Street Journal ​later reported ⁠that Putin has pitched using a trilateral meeting to discuss an end to Russia's ​long-running war in Ukraine.

Trump said in an ​interview ⁠with CBS' 60 Minutes program that "I believe we're very close to making a deal" to end the Russia-Ukraine ⁠war that ​would result in a "little bit ​different shape Ukraine," without offering specifics.