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China 'Already Preparing' Trilateral Summit With US & Russia, Likely For November: Kremlin
China 'Already Preparing' Trilateral Summit With US & Russia, Likely For November: Kremlin There's lots of talk of big trilateral meetings in the middle of this week, as some major parallel diplomacy is currently happening in St. Petersburg. President Vladimir Putin's meeting with US special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff has wrapped up, but already China is also in the house. Significantly, Chinese Premier Li Qiang is second-highest-ranking official in the country's Communist Party (CCP) hierarchy, under President Xi Jinping. He's meeting with Putin just after the Witkoff summ