The Schiller Institute today released the names of 97 prominent signers of Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Urgent Appeal to Presidents Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin!” calling on the three presidents to meet at the Sept. 3 Beijing commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific (V-J Day).
Zepp-LaRouche based her urgent call on the need for dialogue to pull mankind back from the pathway toward nuclear confrontation.
Her call has taken on special significance in the wake of the successful summit in Alaska of U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin on Aug. 15. Though Western media and political circles have attempted to reduce the summit to the issue of Ukraine, in fact it opened the door to a wide array of economic and strategic initiatives, including such large infrastructure projects as the long-discussed proposal to construct a tunnel under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia. Zepp-LaRouche had called exactly for that proposal in a widely-circulated statement issued Aug. 10, “Zepp-LaRouche Calls on Presidents Trump, Putin and Xi: The Bering Strait Tunnel Project Is the Perfect War-Avoidance Policy.”
The Aug. 15 Alaska meeting “was an extremely important step towards normalizing relations between the two largest nuclear powers, and it pulled the world away from a possible abyss,” Zepp-LaRouche told TASS, in an interview on Aug. 16. The same day, she told a gathering in New York City that, “We are lucky that Putin and Trump did what they did yesterday in Alaska. It’s just the first step. Hopefully this will lead to other agreements. Hopefully Trump will go to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on 3rd of September.” If he does, she told TASS, this will give him the opportunity “together with President Xi Jinping, President Putin, and a host of other leaders from the Global South to send a powerful signal to the world that the leaders of the major powers are moving from confrontation to cooperation, and thus ushering in a new era in human history.”
All others who agree with Zepp-LaRouche’s appeal for the tripartite summit are urged to add their names here: Urgent Appeal to Presidents Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin!
[Press release and full list of signers’ names is available at https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/08/22/schiller-institute-releases-names-of-97-prominent-endorsers-of-urgent-appeal-to-presidents-xi-trump-and-putin-to-meet-on-commemoration-of-vj-day-sept-3/]
