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.
A simple graph explains Australia's declining strategic position. Relative to the two countries that its defense planners must consider most carefully, Australia will by 2017 have just a quarter of the economic clout it enjoyed 25 years before.
BEIJING — A South Korean defense ministry think tank is publicly opposing development of the proposed KF-X indigenous fighter. The Korea Institute for Defense Analysis told a public meeting that the country is not technologically equipped to develop the aircraft, that the project is economically unviable and that the KF-X would not be a successful export product.
