Photo by Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images Nine years, two trade wars, and six weeks later than originally planned, Donald Trump has returned to Beijing. He is travelling with a bevy of high-profiles CEOs, including Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, and BlackRock’s Larry Fink. Brett Ratner, who directed Amazon’s  Melania  documentary and the first three  Rush Hour  movies is reportedly joining the trip to scout locations for a fourth instalment. The American delegation can surely expect a lavish welcome, a flurry of impressive-sounding deals, and many toasts to the future of Sino-US relations. In return, Xi Jinping can expect a torrent of effusive praise from Trump’s social media account as the US president frames the summit as a meeting of the two most powerful men in the world, or what he likes to call the “G2”.  In reality, the timing of this visit is itself an admission of defeat — or at least the…