Anthony Albanese welcomes Trump-Xi-Putin summit – even as European leaders express reservations

‘We think dialogue is a good thing,’ Australian PM says after German chancellor urges the US to work with Europe for peace in Ukraine
Australia has endorsed this week’s historic summit between Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in China, even as European leaders warn that the US president must not make major concessions over the war in Ukraine.
The three-way summit is planned to take place in Shenzhen, where the leaders will gather for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting. Likened to the 1945 summit at Yalta, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has warned the talks must not lead to a redistribution of influence among world powers or the abandonment of his country, more than four years into the war sparked by Putin’s full-scale invasion.

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