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.
China’s Minsheng Financial Leasing is in talks to acquire 10-15 business jets, and has plans to obtain 100 by 2014. The company, set up to exploit what its owners rightly expected to be rapid growth in Chinese business aviation, has ordered 17 aircraft since signing its first purchase contract in April 2008, says the firm’s aviation and legal consultant, David Tang.
BEIJING—Japan will buy 12 fighters during the next five years, along with trickle production of other types of aircraft and warships, according to a defense plan that significantly expands the scope for cooperation. The navy will operate more ballistic-missile defense destroyers while the army fields fewer tanks.
BEIJING — A Chinese state document has referred to the government having “put forward” a plan in 2009 to build aircraft carriers, adding to widespread expectations that such a program is in hand or imminent. The “Sunday Morning Post,” a Hong Kong newspaper that obtained the document, presents it as the first official confirmation of a carrier program, but the wording seems less than categorical.
