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.
Growth in Chinese military spending will fall markedly below economic expansion this year, official figures suggest, while the country separately undertakes reforms to its forces intended to overcome some of their most deep-seated problems.
The Chinese government has named the two top leaders of the aero-engine company that it is forming by splitting off propulsion businesses from aeronautics group Avic.
Air China has applied to open a route between Shanghai and San Jose, California, moving for a second time in four months to take a market that Hainan Airlines looked likely to enter.
