Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Shenzhen summit could become a 21st-century Yalta, redrawing global spheres of influence. (EPA Images pic)BEIJING: A possible China-US-Russia summit has prompted alarm of a modern-day Yalta Conference, with three powerful men carving up the world -- with little regard for Ukraine, Europe and Taiwan or anyone else.
But apart from an historic photo opportunity, the meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the Nov 18-19 APEC summit in Shenzhen will likely achieve little, analysts say.
When then US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Britain's Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met in Yalta in February 1945, they laid out the post-WWII settlement and new territorial boundaries in Europe.
