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 Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has verified the viability of long-distance wireless power transmission, which could be used for space-based solar power generation, and will now pursue practical application of the technology.
In what has become an annual tradition, Western media reports are exaggerating the rise in China’s defense budget, omitting the adjustment for inflation.
