Trump, Putin, and Xi: A Meeting That Could Change Everything?

I examine the reported proposal for a Putin-Trump-Xi meeting on the sidelines of the November 18–19 APEC summit in Shenzhen—and why Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, argues that elevating Putin before a ceasefire would reward continued war. The core issue is not simply diplomacy: it is whether Ukraine is treated as a participant in decisions about its own future or as an object of great-power bargaining.

I also cover Ukraine’s planned field trials of two domestic low-cost air-defense missiles targeting a price below $20,000, Russia’s Kosmos-2612 satellite passing within 26 meters of ICEYE-X36...