Trump 'open to summit with Xi and Putin'

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he is open to three-way arms-control talks with President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin as soon as next month, raising the prospect of an unprecedented meeting. "We would have it to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearisation," Trump told reporters outside the White House. "If President Xi wants to have it, I'd have it. I'm sure we'd talk about other things like trade too." The Kremlin said earlier that the Russian, Chinese and US leaders could meet at an Asia-Pacific summit in Shenzhen next month, following a Wall Street Journal report that Putin wanted the three-way talks to broker a peace deal favourable to Moscow. The three leaders have met separately but never held formal talks together. "I would do it, not so much for Ukraine, because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much," Trump told reporters when asked if he would attend a meeting with Putin and Xi to discuss Ukraine. Pressed on whether he would discuss Ukraine at any Xi-Putin summit, Trump replied that he would do "whatever I can do to end the war." But Trump defended his recent diesel deal with Putin and decision to waive new sanctions...