Why Trump, Xi, and Putin can’t carve up the world like the ‘big three’ leaders of 1945

By Nicholas Westcott, Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Dept of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London

Discussions are underway for a potential meeting between Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on November 18-19. The prospect has prompted comparisons with the “Big Three” summit in Yalta in February 1945 at which the leaders of Britain, the US and the Soviet Union discussed a carve up of the world following the second world war.

It is clear that Trump, Xi and Putin, each in charge of a country that considers itself a “great power”,…

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