Chinese President Xi Jinping will spend two days with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago next month. | Getty Chinese President Xi to visit Trump next week at Mar-a-Lago

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the U.S. next month, spending two days with President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the White House announced Thursday morning.

The White House’s statement makes official a trip that had been widely expected for weeks. Xi will visit Mar-a-Lago on April 6-7, when he and Trump will “discuss global, regional, and bilateral issues of mutual concern,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in the statement.


The president and first lady Melania Trump will also host Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, for a dinner during the visit.

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Also expected to be present at Mar-a-Lago is Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who had originally opted to skip a gathering of NATO foreign ministers in favor of the Trump-Xi meeting. The NATO meeting was later rescheduled and Tillerson will attend.