A three-way summit between Presidents Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping has not as yet been confirmed, but it seems likely to take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit scheduled for Nov. 18-19 in Shenzhen, China. This is a cause for anxiety among some European leaders, who fear that they and their protégé, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will be excluded from discussions on Ukraine’s future.
To forestall this possibility, the EU is trying to promote Finnish President Alexander Stubb as its own envoy to the future peace talks. This seems a doomed endeavor, since Stubb is a bland, boring Eurocrat with not a single original idea in his head. This makes him eminently qualified to be president of the European Commission, which he freely admits is his long-term ambition, but it does not qualify him to be a partner in the discussions among grown-ups.
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