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The three largest nuclear powers will sit in one room for the first time. Trump, Xi, and Putin are set to meet November 19 in Shenzhen on the sidelines of APEC. The White House confirmed the trilateral on November 13. It is the final event of Trump’s Asia trip, after a separate Trump-Xi bilateral and working lunch the same day. No one-on-one Trump-Putin meeting is planned. The main topic is nuclear weapons. White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said the president “will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world,” calling proliferation “very dangerous.”New START, the last major U.S.-Russia arms treaty, expired in February. The two largest arsenals, roughly 5,000 warheads each, now have no formal limits for the first time in over 50 years. China’s arsenal is estimated in the low hundreds to about 600 and is growing fastest. Trump wants a new deal that includes Beijing. Iran will also be raised, according to a senior U.S. official. Ukraine will not. Washington says it has a separate track on that war. Expectations are deliberately low. A senior U.S. official called it “the entry point, the first conversation” and said “we do not expect to get to any kind of agreement.” The same official said it is “time for China to sort of step up” on strategic stability talks. China has long resisted formal trilateral arms control talks, citing the size gap with the U.S. and Russia. Earlier reporting indicated Beijing preferred a tightly scripted format. Whether it will engage on limits or transparency in Shenzhen remains the open question.