President Donald Trump recently expressed his openness to a potential trilateral meeting with China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin to discuss defense spending. During a press briefing in the Oval Office, Trump mentioned the possibility of collectively cutting military budgets in half.
Trump stated, 'At some point, when things settle down, I'm going to meet with China, and I'm going to meet with Russia - in particular those two. I want to say, 'Let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that. I think we'll be able to do it.'