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.
In the seventh and eighth centuries, Urumqi was a stop on the Silk Road, the caravan trail along which trade flowed between China and Europe. In the 21st century, the city in China’s far Northwest may again become a key point in trans-Eurasian communications, for much the same reason as before: It is on the way.
BEIJING — Growth in Chinese defense spending appears to be moderating in line with the national economy, despite the 10.7% nominal rise that was announced this week and widely reported in international news reports as underlining Beijing’s expanding military capabilities.
