European allies broadly support building closer ties to China — and believe America's role as a global superpower is fading.

SINGAPORE, March 16 (Reuters) - China's Hua Hong Group has developed advanced chip manufacturing technologies that can be used to produce artificial intelligence chips, four people familiar with the matter said,

Chicago soybean futures slumped more than 2% on Monday — dropping below $12 a bushel — in the face of a potential delay of US trade talks with China, the world’s top buyer of the oilseed.

PARIS, March 15 (Reuters) - Top U.S. and Chinese economic ⁠officials ⁠held "remarkably stable" talks in Paris on Sunday ⁠that touched on potential areas of agreement in agriculture, critical minerals and managed trade for ​U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to consider in Beijing, two sources familiar with the talks said.

By Liangping Gao, Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING, March 16 (Reuters) - Prices of China's new homes remained in contraction in February, official data showed on Monday, indicating the troubled property sector is still far from recovery even as the country's biggest cities registered some improvement.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a crawl with most commercial traffic paralyzed, while a handful of Iranian-linked vessels continue to navigate the waterway despite escalating security risks.

China’s largest ecommerce company is launching a European version of the retail business that drove its growth as it seeks to take on Amazon and reduce reliance on an increasingly tough domestic market.

BEIJING, March 16 (Reuters) - China's industrial output grew 6.3% in January-February from the same period a year earlier, accelerating from the 5.2% pace in December, official data showed on Monday.

Beijing tamped down its GDP growth target this year to a range of 4.5% to 5%, the least ambitious goal on record going back to the early 1990s.