Beijing wants any three-way summit among the leaders of the U.S., China and Russia to be a highly scripted affair, with each reading a prepared statement and little room for discussion, according to people familiar with efforts to organize the trilateral meeting.
But the Trump administration is pushing for a looser format that would allow more exchange among the three leaders instead of scripted monologues on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to be held in southern China Nov. 18-19.
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