Donald Trump will participate in the first-ever trilateral meeting between the leaders of the U.S., China and Russia on the sidelines at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in China next week, senior U.S. officials told reporters Friday evening.

Trump is expected to discuss Iran with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the officials said, but he does not intend to discuss Russia's war with Ukraine during the trilateral meeting.

Denuclearization will be the focus of the long-awaited trilateral meeting, though officials do not anticipate the leaders reaching any concrete agreement and are characterizing this meeting as an initial conversation broaching the subject.

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Most people don't even realize Xi is more educated than all US presidents and most US elected representatives, and has written more than a half dozen books explaining every bit of the current party philosophy, including all of China's failures and his own contemporary failures and how the party has improved.

Sounds like Woodrow Wilson to me. Funny thing about him is that all his education and intellect did not make the liberal world order he envisioned any better, nor did it make the racism he promoted justified. It's not like the League of Nations did anything for world peace, and I doubt you want to defend the rigid nation-state framework and neoliberal fiscal policies of the UN.

On top of that, I can't take the "philosophy" of politicians seriously; it coming from a head of state makes it propaganda to justify their own authority. Philosophy works best as a conversation, an open dialectic where one side of it doesn't have the absolute authority of a superpower backing them up. It just comes across more like cult shit from a technocratic state capitalist.

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