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 Eastern will strengthen Singapore’s growing connections with Chinese secondary cities on March 20, when it begins flying between the Southeast Asian city-state and Nanjing. China Eastern will fly the 3,700-kilometer (2,000 nautical mile) route with Airbus A319s three times a week in competition with Singapore Airlines’ twice-weekly Boeing 777-200 service.
YAOGAN LAUNCHED: China has launched the ninth unit in its Yaogan series of remote sensing satellites. A Long March 4C launcher successfully placed Yaogan 9 in orbit on March 5, the Jiuquan satellite launch center says, adding that the spacecraft will survey land resources, forecast grain output and help manage disasters — the same tasks mentioned for earlier Yaogan satellites. The Pentagon lists the remote sensing satellites among Chinese military assets.
Air China looks likely to take control of Shenzhen Airlines, building up its position against rival China Southern in the country’s south after gaining control of the target company’s management.
