Some in Australia stuck in the Cold War

In a highly inflammatory opinion piece in an Australian newspaper on Thursday, Andrew Hastie, the head of Australia's parliamentary intelligence and security committee, drew a comparison between China's rise and that of Nazi Germany.

In a newspaper column, the federal member of Australia's Liberal Party, which leads the ruling coalition, likened the West's attitude to China to the inadequate French response to the World War II advances of Nazi Germany.

Such remarks are deplorable, and risible.