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.
Broadening its business beyond domestic narrowbody operations to embrace international widebody services, Beijing-based Capital Airlines has applied to begin flying intercontinental routes from Chinese secondary cities.
An upgrade of the South Korean MSAM system aimed at dealing with tactical ballistic missiles will exploit most of the current equipment in modified form.