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.
Taiwan’s EVA Airways will begin daily direct flights between the island and China next month, thanks to a cross-strait agreement to loosen restrictions. EVA, based at Taipei’s Toayuan Airport, will fly to Shanghai, Hangzhou in Eastern China and Shenzhen in the South. Taiwan and China are gradually allowing more direct contacts between their economies, which Taiwan has traditionally opposed. Until the gradual liberalization began a few years ago, anyone flying between Taiwan and mainland China had to land at an intermediate spot, usually Hong Kong.
Sweeping reforms of the Chinese aerospace sector will present the global industry with a team of focused competitors with specialties ranging from engines to fighters to aircraft equipment.
Douglas Barrie (Zhuhai, China), Bradley Perrett (Zhuhai, China)
Having entered the elite club of nations capable of developing active radar-guided air-to-air missiles, China is now looking for additional integration platforms for its PL-12 missile, both at home and abroad.
