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 Southern Airlines is planning to open a route between Shenzhen, China, and Brisbane, Australia, in November, joining China Eastern Airlines in commencing services to the eastern Australian city this year.
Japan will field unmanned aircraft for air combat and ballistic missile defense in the 2030s, according to a defense ministry technology development road map.
