Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
BEIJING — Japan will join international programs for the development and manufacturing of military equipment, following its historic decision to relax its ban on arms exports. The decision creates a potential for enormous changes in the way Japanese defense suppliers do business, allowing them to concentrate on developing and making weapons parts in which they have special advantages, rather than persist in building the entire equipment in uneconomical, low volumes. Changes are likely to come only gradually, however, as the country initiates new programs.
The city of Chongqing plans to spend 1 billion yuan ($160 million) in the next three years supporting airlines that help it in its campaign to become the international gateway to western China.
