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.
TransAsia Airways is likely to be smaller than it was at the time of its Nov. 22 failure, if a revival attempt by fellow Taiwanese carrier Far Eastern Air Transport succeeds.
The Chinese navy has conducted a live-fire exercise for a battle group centered on the aircraft carrier Liaoning, acknowledged by the service as not yet ready for war.