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.
Momentum is building for Japan to ease its nearly complete ban on arms exports, raising the prospect of the country taking incremental steps to participate in international weapons programs.
Air China will greatly expand its business aviation operation in Beijing with support from the city government, competing with a similar set-up run by Hainan Airlines. The northeastern city of Dalian is also negotiating with Air China for the creation of an airline at its local airport, but in that case the new company will offer normal scheduled services, not business aviation.
Taiwan’s China Airlines rejects a report that it has announced its widely expected entry into the SkyTeam alliance. The island’s Central News Agency reports that the carrier said on Sept. 4 that it had decided to join SkyTeam, but a spokeswoman for China Airlines denies that it made any such statement. Nonetheless, China Airlines’ entry into SkyTeam could be imminent. The mainland’s China Southern and China Eastern have chosen the same alliance. Air China, meanwhile, is a member of the Star Alliance, while Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific is in Oneworld.
