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.
Australians should keep their red carpets cleaned and ready, because China Eastern Airlines alone may open five more routes to their country between late October and late March 2017.
Equipping South Korean destroyers with SM-3s would be the latest in a series of measures in which Seoul and Washington are strongly reinforcing the country’s defenses against a growing North Korean ballistic-missile threat.