LONDON (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.

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

The Chinese government on Saturday confirmed Monday's meeting in the United Kingdom of its senior representatives with their US counterparts. Vice Premier He Lifeng will visit the UK from June 8 to 13 at the invitation of the British government,