SCMP: According to sources familiar with the plan, Xi is expected to arrive in Washington on September 24 and depart on September 25, mirroring Trump’s just three-day itinerary in China. Sourabh Gupta, a senior fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies, said Beijing was unlikely to let individual presidential comments, or the prediction markets reacting to them, derail its broader objectives. “Beijing has learned to look beyond the president’s individual, erratic utterances,” Gupta said. “While individual utterances may move prediction markets, [they are] unlikely to deflect Beijing from its summit goals and priorities,” Gupta said. Chinese officials have “learned to disregard that which is realistically beyond their control”.