Chinese officials have forcefully condemned a Liberal MP for comments he made linking the West's handling of China's rise to a failure to contain the advance of Nazi Germany. Key points:Liberal backbencher Andrew Hastie used a newspaper opinion piece to raise his concerns about ChinaHe linked the rise of China with the West's failure to contain the advance of Nazi GermanyChinese officials said the comments demonstrated a "Cold War mentality and ideological bias" Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier in the day shrugged off a warning by West Australian backbencher Andrew Hastie that Beijing posed a threat to Australia's freedoms.Mr Hastie used an opinion piece in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald to warn against underestimating China's influence, saying Australia would face its biggest democratic, economic and security test over the next decade."Right now our greatest vulnerability lies not in our infrastructure, but in our thinking," he wrote.
