Wire reporting: (AFP, via CNA)

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Shenzhen on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, White House officials said Friday^1,2,3,4,5.

ABC News, citing senior U.S. officials, described the session as the first trilateral meeting among the three countries' leaders¹. The Japan Times and CNA, citing the White House, reported the same characterization^4,5.

White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters the three would meet at APEC in the southern Chinese city^3,4,5. Yonhap, citing Bloomberg, also placed the meeting on Thursday in Shenzhen².

U.S. officials said Trump wants to discuss reducing nuclear arsenals and intends to raise the war in Iran, but is not expected to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine^3,4,5. Wales said the president would discuss reducing nuclear weapons, calling proliferation very dangerous^3,5.

A senior U.S. official, speaking anonymously, said Washington has a separate negotiation track with Kyiv and Moscow on Ukraine and that China is not part of that track, so the topic did not seem appropriate for the trilateral^3,5.

Trump will also hold a working lunch and a meeting with Xi on Thursday, described as their fourth meeting since he returned to office last year, and is not scheduled to have a separate one-on-one with Putin^3,5.

Officials said Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk will accompany Trump to China but will not take part in the trilateral^3,5. They said Nvidia chief Jensen Huang's resignation and U.S. export controls on sensitive chips were not expected to come up^3,5.

Trump is due to leave Washington on Monday, stop in the Philippines on Tuesday for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, then go to Shenzhen⁵. Yonhap, citing Reuters, said there were no plans for him to engage North Korea on the trip; a South Korean presidential official said a Trump-Kim meeting was not highly probable². RTE, citing U.S. officials, said he is not expected to meet Kim Jong Un³.

Neither Beijing nor Moscow issued on-record confirmations in the reports reviewed. The White House briefing was the sole official source for the schedule and agenda claims^1,3,5.