So did 86 percent of Chinese executives and 97 percent of those in India.

And the Chinese executive, whose name he would not reveal, is now in jail.

But even some Chinese executives express concern that their designers lack international experience.

Yet many Western and Chinese executives expect China to prevail in the energy-technology race.

Such confidence - not to mention worldliness - is rare in a Chinese executive.

Many wealthy Chinese executives have bought homes in Singapore and moved their families here.

Many also argued that its decision to make a high-end Buick sedan geared to Chinese executives looked risky.

His determination highlights a sensitive challenge facing Chinese executives in this nervous British colony.

One Chinese executive said 80,000 employees in a large city in Liaoning were not being paid.

"They've eased up economic policy enough that in some ways things are pretty much back to where they were," a relatively optimistic Chinese executive said.