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.
A second runway for Wuhan Tianhe International Airport is due to go into service in June, lifting capacity to nearly twice the facility’s 2015 traffic volume.
Australia is budgeting a 2.6% inflation-adjusted rise in defense spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1, underpinning a commitment to lift its military budget to 2% of gross domestic product by 2020-21.
