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.
A simple graph explains Australia's declining strategic position. Relative to the two countries that its defense planners must consider most carefully, Australia will by 2017 have just a quarter of the economic clout it enjoyed 25 years before.
BEIJING — A South Korean defense ministry think tank is publicly opposing development of the proposed KF-X indigenous fighter. The Korea Institute for Defense Analysis told a public meeting that the country is not technologically equipped to develop the aircraft, that the project is economically unviable and that the KF-X would not be a successful export product.
China Eastern Airlines and Qantas’s Jetstar subsidiary are proceeding with plans to launch Jetstar Hong Kong and have appointed a CEO. The appointment of CEO Edward Lau, who was born in Hong Kong, fulfills the partners’ commitment to select a local person to lead the budget carrier. Jetstar last month named Howard Cheung CFO. Although China Eastern last year raised the possibility that Jetstar Hong Kong could be operating by the end of 2012, Jetstar now says the target is mid-2013.
