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 Long March 5 has arrived at its launch base for the second mission of the heavy rocket type, China’s largest, and the first for the country’s big new satellite bus.
Japan is urgently studying installation of Aegis Ashore air-and-missile-defense systems in response to the rising threat from North Korea, the Kyodo news agency says.
