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 new cargo airline to be based in Xian, China has completed preparations for operations and has applied for an air operator certificate (AOC), the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.
South Korea has reportedly expanded its requirement for additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings to 40 aircraft from 20, as the defense ministry refines plans for a ship to carry some of them.
Japan must move toward buying cheap and numerous equipment, Defense Minister Kono Taro said, even as the country took the next step toward developing an unusually large fighter.
