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.
Japan is operating probably the world’s third or fourth largest radio signals intelligence (sigint) establishment, ranking behind the U.S. and Britain but maybe not Russia and China, Australian researchers say in a new report on the subject.
With this strategy, Hainan Airlines evidently aims to fill market demand it calculates as being unserved by Shanghai-based China Eastern, which has been slow in expanding its international business.