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.
April air traffic worldwide rose significantly from 2013, but decelerating economic growth in China could depress future growth for the balance of the year, an analysis of data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) shows.
BEIJING — The addition of Avic J-10 and Sukhoi Su-30 fighters in an annual joint naval exercise will increase the challenges for the Chinese and Russian participants, Chinese media report. Chinese ships in the May 20-25 exercise will include the Type 052C (Luyang II) air-defense destroyer Zhengzhou and the Sovremenny class surface-warfare destroyer Ningbo. The fighters will be among nine aircraft participating, National Defense University professor Li Li tells state television network CCTV.
