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.
Full-scale development of a new Taiwanese fighter could probably begin in early to mid-2020s. Taiwan has 343 front-line fighters that will need replacing.
Taiwan’s first step toward another indigenous fighter should be a technology acquisition effort, says the defense ministry’s technology agency, which would lead the early stages of the program.
Asked to compare the operability of the A350 and the similarly sized Boeing 777-300ER, China Airlines Chairman Nuan-Hsuan Ho had no complaints about either.
