Mike Pompeo blasts China's 'coercion' of Australia as cyber-attack likened to Parliament House hack

Australian Strategic Policy Institute stands by claim the attacks were ‘95% or more’ likely to have been launched from China

The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has said he raised China’s “coercion” of Australia during a frank, six-hour meeting with China’s top diplomat in Hawaii.

It comes as experts say some of the same computer code and tactics used in cyber-attacks revealed by the Australia prime minister, Scott Morrison, on Friday were also used in a February 2019 hack into Parliament House, which was also blamed on China.

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