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President Donald Trump, speaking from the Oval Office Thursday, downplayed an upcoming nuclear summit in Beijing between Iran, Russia, and China, three chief adversaries of the U.S.
The discussions, first confirmed by the Chinese foreign ministry Thursday and which come just days after Iran rebuffed Trump’s push to engage in nuclear negotiations, will coincide with a United Nations Security Council meeting regarding Tehran’s expansion of near-weapons-grade uranium.
Trump suggested perhaps Beijing, Moscow and Tehran will be having their own discussions on «de-escalation.»
«Well, maybe they’re going to talk about non-nuclear problems. Maybe they’re going to be talking about the de-escalation of nuclear weapons,» Trump told reporters.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (Getty Images)
Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin once engaged in «strong» talks about nuclear weapons and said he believes, had he won the 2016 election, further Russian denuclearization would have been on the table.
«I think I would have made a deal with Putin on de-escalation, denuclearization,» Trump said. «But we would have de-escalated nuclear weapons because the power of nuclear weapons is so great and so devastating.»
The president also claimed that China would «catch us in five years» because of its rapid development of its nuclear stockpiles, though this would be far sooner than other experts have warned.
The Pentagon in 2024 assessed that China is believed to have 600 nuclear weapons, up from the low 200s in 2020. But, in a report Wednesday, experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said claims that China will be a «peer» or «near peer» with the U.S. in the near future were a «gross exaggeration.»
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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House March 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«There is no evidence that China’s ongoing nuclear expansion will result in parity with the U.S. arsenal,» the report said. «Even the worst-case 2023 projection of 1,500 warheads by 2035 amounts to less than half of the current U.S. nuclear stockpile.»
Russia is believed to have 5,580 nuclear weapons, and the U.S. is reported to have 5,225, while China comes in at a distant third, according to the Arms Control Association.
Concerns over North Korea’s largely unchecked nuclear program have also continued to mount in recent years, particularly after Pyongyang formed closer ties with Moscow after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
«It would be a great achievement if we could bring down the number,» Trump said.
«You don’t need them to that extent,» he added, noting the immense destruction even one nuclear weapon could inflict.
North Korea is estimated to have 50 nuclear weapons, which Trump noted is «a lot.»
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, supervises artillery firing drills in North Korea March 7, 2024. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
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But he also pointed to the positive relationship he had with Kim Jong Un during his first presidency and suggested that relationship could extend during his second term. Trump appeared to suggest there could be room for nuclear negotiations.
«I have a great relationship with Kim Jong Un, and we’ll see what happens,» Trump told reporters. «But certainly he’s a nuclear power.»
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Evyatar David, a music lover who dreams of working in the industry, is languishing in a Hamas tunnel, according to his brother, Ilay David.
In a recent conversation with Fox News Digital, Ilay warned that his brother and all the hostages are running out of time.
«Every week we used to play music together. That’s what I miss the most,» Ilay told Fox News Digital. He has been fighting for Evyatar’s release since Oct. 7, 2023. Ilay described his brother as «the kindest soul I know.»
On Oct. 7, 2023, Evyatar was at the Nova music festival with three other friends when Hamas’ attacks began. Two of Evyatar’s friends did not survive the attacks, while he and his best friend, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, were taken hostage.
Hamas hostage Evyatar David, left, stands next to his brother, Ilay David, in a photo taken prior to his kidnapping. ( )
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Like many other hostage families, Evyatar’s family set up a website to tell the world who he is and why securing his freedom is so crucial. On the website, his family laments that his «vibrant life» was forever changed. There are also videos showcasing Evyatar’s guitar skills.
In February, the David family received a sign of life that Ilay described as being «shocking and amazing and frightening.» Evyatar and Guy were forced to participate in a Hamas propaganda film, a practice the terror group has employed throughout the war. In the video, the two men in their 20s appear frail and tired as they beg for their lives while being forced to watch a hostage release ceremony in Gaza.
«When it was finished, I could breathe,» Ilay told Fox News Digital as he recalled watching the film for the first time. «I saw them alive. I saw that they are together.»
Ilay’s relief washed away when he watched the video a second time.
«I saw how starved they are. They are half the men they used to be. And you could see in their eyes that they are exhausted, and they are begging for their lives,» Ilay told Fox News Digital. «They are broken, both of them, broken men.»
«They saw freedom, and they shut the door in their faces. And they threw them back into the tunnels. And that’s cruelty.»
Hamas hostage Evyatar David before his kidnapping. ( )
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Ilay’s concerns about his brother have only grown since former hostages who were held with Evyatar detailed the conditions in which they were held. He told Fox News Digital that the former hostages said the two men have been underground in the tunnels for most of their captivity and were only able to see sunlight when they were taken to the ceremony. As is the case with most hostages, Evyatar and Guy are given very little to eat and have limited access to water.
«But it’s only a matter of time until — I don’t know — one of the terrorists would just… be angry or upset. So, he will decide that he wants to execute, execute Evyatar or Guy. And I don’t want to think about it, but it happened already,» Ilay told Fox News Digital, likely referring to the six hostages who were shot dead in late August 2024, just before Israeli troops were able to reach them.
A poster with a photograph of Evyatar David, who is held hostage in Gaza, is placed on a table in front of Ilay David, his brother, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion with family members of hostages held in Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 2025. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
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Ilay told Fox News Digital he has done everything possible to tell his brother’s story and to make him «visible,» including going to Washington, D.C., to meet with American lawmakers. He believes President Donald Trump has a «very big role» to play in securing the release of Evyatar and the remaining hostages.
«[Trump], no kidding, may be sent by God to save these people,» Ilay said. He cited the release of 33 hostages over the course of the ceasefire deal that only recently fell apart, and said that if it weren’t for Trump, those people would still be in Gaza.
Ilay told Fox News Digital that, in his eyes, the atrocities of Oct. 7 have not ended — they are still happening for the people held by Hamas in Gaza.
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