A new round of trade negotiations between the United States and China has started in London, with both sides trying to preserve a fragile truce brokered last month.

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.