Published: August 07, 2019
Australia’s sovereignty at risk, Liberal MP says – but Labor says his intervention threatens ties
Labor has branded comments by the Liberal MP Andrew Hastie likening the west’s attitude to China to France’s inadequate defences against Nazi Germany “extreme, overblown and unwelcome”.
Hastie, who chairs the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, accused China in an opinion piece for Nine newspapers of trying to supplant the US as the dominant power in the Indo-Pacific region.
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