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.
Decades ago, China began letting private investment into what had been 100% state enterprises. The usual approach, however, was for the state to share ownership of subsidiaries with outsiders while keeping full ownership at the group level.
