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.
Big orders for antisubmarine warfare aircraft and helicopters, sea-based V-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, a new-technology submarine and surveillance aircraft are priorities in Japan’s 2016 defense budget.
HNA Group is planning the revival of its subsidiary in the northwestern Chinese province Shaanxi as the next major airline project after establishing Ningbo Airlines next year.
HNA Group subsidiary Ningbo Airlines—already established as a company but not yet ready for operations—should begin flying next year, following the arrival of support from its other intending shareholder: the government of the city of Ningbo in eastern China.
