Kevin Rudd accuses Liberals of stirring up hysteria about China
by Ben Doherty from on (#4NSK9)
Former Labor prime minister says Andrew Hastie and Malcolm Turnbull went 'all hairy-chested' on China
The former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd has accused members of the Liberal party of fomenting national hysteria and "going all hairy-chested" over China.
In an interview at the National Press Club on Friday, Rudd condemned Liberal backbencher Andrew Hastie, the chair of parliament's intelligence and security committee, who compared western tolerance of Chinese expansionism with the appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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