#USChinaTradeTalks As US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin landed in the Chinese commercial hub on Tuesday, Trump accused Beijing on Twitter of stalling, and warned of a worse outcome for China if it continued to do so.

This week`s meetings, the first in-person trade talks since a G20 truce last month, come as an official survey showed China`s factory activity shrank for the third month in a row in July, underlining the growing strains placed on the world`s second-biggest economy by the trade war.

Vice Premier Liu He met and shook hands with Lighthizer and Mnuchin at Shanghai`s Xijiao State Guest Hotel in front of media on Wednesday morning ahead of the day`s negotiations, but the officials did not make any public remarks.

The trade row has dragged on for more than a year, with the world`s two largest economies slapping billions of dollars of tariffs on each other`s imports, disrupting global supply chains and shaking financial markets.