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.
Australia is acting like a country increasingly worried about its security but willing to pay to do something about it—including drawing even closer to its ally the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region.
Chinese provincial carrier Sichuan Airlines proposes linking Hangzhou with Los Angeles International Airport starting in June, extending its push into intercontinental business.
Australia is widening its options for sustaining its wing of strike aircraft into the 2030s to include unmanned systems, with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting no longer considered the default choice.
