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.
Mitsubishi Aircraft has resumed flight testing of its MRJ regional jet, following airframe strengthening and software modifications to the program’s first prototype.
Prosperous Shenzhen has become the latest Chinese secondary city to open intercontinental air links, with China Southern Airlines beginning flights to Sydney and Xiamen Airlines planning a service to Seattle.
By Southeast Asian standards, Vietnam is impressively modernizing its military. Singapore seems to be more than adequately armed for facing either of the two countries that surround it, Malaysia and Indonesia.
