LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - Top U.S. and Chinese officials will sit down in London on Monday for talks aimed at defusing the high-stakes trade dispute between the two superpowers that has widened in recent weeks beyond tit-for-tat tariffs to export controls over goods and components critical to global supply chains.

Heritage Foundation research fellow EJ Antoni on the U.S. and China holding trade talks in London and the need for deregulation and lower taxation to encourage domestic production.

U.S.-China trade talks in London this week are expected to take up a series of disputes that have buffeted relations.