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.
Rising tensions in China’s international relations, especially with the U.S., raise questions about how Western airliner sales could be affected and the knock-on impact on the COMAC C919 program.