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.
Japan is operating probably the world’s third or fourth largest radio signals intelligence (sigint) establishment, ranking behind the U.S. and Britain but maybe not Russia and China, Australian researchers say in a new report on the subject.