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.
In preparing facilities and support infrastructure for the MRJ, Mitsubishi Aircraft is looking at follow-on programs. Meanwhile, the first flight-test aircraft is back in the air, and the company has found its first lessor customer.
“China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that’s just a fact,” Beijing’s then foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, impatiently told Southeast Asian leaders looking for U.S. support in the South China Sea in 2010. The message was clear enough: they should do as they were told.
Despite China's apparent ambition to control just about all of the South China Sea, only two of the countries adjoining that body of water are clearly reacting with armament efforts—Vietnam strongly and the Philippines much less so.
