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.
Airbus is pouring cold water on any suggestion that it might become a partner in China’s project for a large commercial aircraft. “We are interested to learn more [about the project] and we are open to discussions, but of course it is difficult to imagine being both partners and competitors,” Airbus President for China, Laurence Barron, told The DAILY. An apparently mistranslated report by China’s Xinhua news agency wrongly quoted Barron saying that Airbus is negotiating to join the Chinese program.
Chinese government officials have chosen participants in the nation’s project for a large commercial aircraft, which will include Harbin Aircraft, Shaanxi Aircraft, Xi’an Aircraft, Shenyang Aircraft and Chengdu Aircraft. All are units of Avic 1 and Avic 2, which will soon be merged along focused product lines — possibly as a preliminary to reorganizing the industry. Xi’an Aircraft had already said it would make assemblies for the aircraft.
