President Donald Trump will take part in the first-ever trilateral meeting between the leaders of the United States, China and Russia on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in China next week, senior U.S. officials told reporters on Friday evening. Trump is expected to discuss Iran with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, though he does not intend to raise Russia's war with Ukraine during the trilateral meeting.

Denuclearization is set to be the focus of the long-awaited meeting, but officials do not anticipate the leaders reaching any concrete agreement, characterizing it instead as an initial conversation on the subject. Trump had been teasing a face-to-face meeting with the world's leading nuclear powers for some time; on Oct. 19 he told ABC News he would like to meet Putin and Xi during his China visit, saying, "I would do that." Trump will meet Xi ahead of the trilateral session, while he and Putin will not hold a separate one-on-one meeting, the officials said.S1S2

The trip is Trump's second to China this year and his third meeting with Xi. Before the China leg, he will attend the ASEAN Summit in Manila, and officials said there are no plans for a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un while he is in Asia. Billionaire Elon Musk will join Trump for parts of his China travels, officials said, citing his business interests there without specifying his reason for accompanying the president. Some additional U.S. business leaders are expected at the APEC CEO Summit in Shenzhen, though they are not part of the U.S. delegation.S1

Officials said they do not expect this week's controversy involving Nvidia to affect the trip or the planned meetings. Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned from the tech company after admitting to an affair, though he did not name the person, amid concerns he had an affair with a possible Chinese spy. Officials said they do not expect Trump to raise with Xi the allegations against Alice Huang, a Chinese national and tech executive at Megaspeed accused of being a Chinese spy, and that the two presidents plan to focus on implementing aspects of their trade agreement.S1S2

A senior U.S. official said national security investigations under way in the United States were unlikely to be shared with the Chinese at this stage.S1