The White House sent out an unusually brief statement Wednesday about a phone call between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping that doesn't mention what they discussed.

The summary of the conversation tersely noted that the two leaders spoke by phone Tuesday night and that it was “productive.” The call came after Trump and Xi met Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week.

“President Donald J. Trump spoke last night with President Xi Jinping of China to follow up after President Xi’s visit to Mar-a-Lago. It was a very productive call,” the statement reads.

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But in a tweet Wednesday morning, Trump offered more context about the call, saying the two discussed “the menace of North Korea.”

“Had a very good call last night with the President of China concerning the menace of North Korea,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.

The two leaders discussed the escalating situations in North Korea and Syria, according to a separate summary of the call from Chinese state-owned media.

Xi reportedly told Trump during the call that China “is committed to peace and stability” in the Korean Peninsula and will continue communications with the United States.

Xi also condemned the use of chemical weapons as “unacceptable” in the call, according to the Chinese document. Trump authorized a military strike last week on a Syrian government air base in response to a chemical attack believed to be carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad's military.

During an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump said he told Xi about the U.S. military strike on Syria while they were eating dessert.

Trump reportedly called his meeting in Mar-a-Lago with Xi a “success” and said he looks forward to visiting China this year

This wasn’t the first time the White House sent a brief mention of a call with a foreign leader. And when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made his first major trip to Asian countries earlier this year, which included a stop in China, he traveled without his usual group of reporters.