U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson will visit China on Saturday to discuss possible solutions to North Korea’s nuclear issue.

Tillerson’s trip, which was officially announced by Beijing on Wednesday, is partially aimed at fine-tuning the agenda for the upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in China next month.

However, they are also expected to talk about the pressing, global matter of North’s nuclear and missile programs.

This comes in the wake of Washington’s threat of a secondary boycott against Chinese companies doing business with the North, raising speculation Washington and Beijing may clash over the issue. 

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