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.
BEIJING — The addition of Avic J-10 and Sukhoi Su-30 fighters in an annual joint naval exercise will increase the challenges for the Chinese and Russian participants, Chinese media report. Chinese ships in the May 20-25 exercise will include the Type 052C (Luyang II) air-defense destroyer Zhengzhou and the Sovremenny class surface-warfare destroyer Ningbo. The fighters will be among nine aircraft participating, National Defense University professor Li Li tells state television network CCTV.
