Shenzhen, the mainland technology hub across the border from Hong Kong, will keep cars off the streets and close schools during the APEC summit it hosts this month, Nikkei Asia reported, as the city prepares to receive Asia-Pacific leaders on November 18 and 19. The Japanese business paper's dispatch described the measures as the host city clearing space for the meeting.

The summit has drawn wider attention because Russian officials say a meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is under discussion on its margins. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said work on organising the trilateral encounter is already under way and could be finalised soon, according to Kommersant, and TASS quoted him saying Beijing had the leading role in preparing it.

The Moscow Times reported that Moscow hopes plans for the Putin-Trump-Xi meeting in China will be finalised in the coming days. Hindustan Times, citing a Financial Times report, said officials are mulling a trilateral on the sidelines of the Shenzhen summit, which it said runs from November 18 to 19.

The preparations described by Nikkei Asia are the kind of logistics story foreign business pages watch in the delta: a major southern city, and one of the region's busiest manufacturing and export centres, suspending normal movement for a diplomatic event. The paper did not give further detail on the scope or duration of the restrictions in the wire summary.

Separately, NHK, the Japanese public broadcaster, reported that the APEC foreign and trade ministers' meeting opened online on the evening of November 3, an unusual format since ministerial meetings are normally held in person before the leaders' summit. NHK did not say in the wire item why the format was changed.

The trilateral question has been carried mainly by Russian outlets. Kommersant reported that Peskov said work on agreeing the Putin-Trump-Xi meeting at the APEC summit in China may be finalised in the near future. TASS reported Peskov revealed details of the preparations and said Beijing had the leading role in preparing the meeting. The Moscow Times, an independent English-language Russian paper, reported that Moscow is hoping the plans will be finalised in the coming days.

Hindustan Times, the Indian daily, reported that Trump, Xi and Putin are likely to meet during the APEC summit in China, citing a report, and said officials are mulling a trilateral. It placed the summit in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19.

For the delta, the summit puts a global spotlight on Shenzhen at a moment when the foreign business press is already focused on China's exports, technology restrictions and the property slowdown. The wire items cited here do not address the substance of what the leaders would discuss, and this dispatch does not add to them.

The Guardian, in a separate dispatch, reported that China has held a flurry of meetings with Gulf leaders ahead of a highly anticipated meeting between Trump and Xi, which it said the US president is expected to attend at the APEC conference. That item frames the summit as a venue for Beijing's wider diplomatic push; it does not confirm the trilateral.

What the wire establishes is narrower than the headlines suggest: a host city clearing its streets, a ministers' meeting moved online, and Russian officials saying a three-way meeting is being organised with Beijing in the lead. Whether it happens, and what is said there, is not in these reports.