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.
China Southern Airlines will build a base at Nanning in southern China for services to Southeast Asia, part of an effort to increase its presence in Guangxi province. The provincial government will support this effort, as often happens when Chinese airlines build up local operations. China Southern’s current base in the province, at Guilin, will become a major tourism hub airport, while Nanning becomes an entry point for foreign services.
South Korea will build its second launcher, the KSLV 2, without help from other countries, such as Russia, the main source of technology for the country’s first space rocket. The key challenge is to develop domestic engines, since the country’s first rocket, the KSLV 1, uses Russian engines that South Korean technicians are forbidden from examining closely.
