Liberals split as Mathias Cormann calls Hastie's China comments 'clumsy'

Minister criticises Nazi reference over Australia-China relations, but Peter Dutton comes to MP’s defence

Mathias Cormann has criticised as “clumsy and inappropriate” Andrew Hastie’s comments that compared the west’s response to China to inadequate defences against Nazi Germany.

Fallout from Hastie’s remarks continued on Friday after China denounced the Liberal chair of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, although the Liberal MP’s Australian critics have targeted his analogy rather than the substance of his warning.

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