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.
As Beijing encourages state companies to seek more nongovernment capital, China Eastern sees a renewed chance for attracting strategic investment. The investor will not necessarily be Delta Air Lines.
A plan to set up an HNA Group airline at Ningbo has survived the downfall of the eastern Chinese city’s mayor, with operations now seen as beginning as early as October.