The Turnbull government is ramping up demands for Sam Dastyari to quit Parliament, as a fresh interview with Chinese media emerges in which the Labor senator appears to adopt the communist regime's official terminology for its war with Japan.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull targeted Senator Dastyari in Question Time on Monday over his links to Chinese Communist Party-linked political donor Huang Xiangmo, and also questioned Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's support for the embattled NSW senator.

Labor returned fire by pressing the government over whether it had ordered an investigation into a possible leak of national security information to Fairfax Media, and taunted Mr Turnbull over a photo of the Prime Minister with Mr Hunang.

In a 2015 interview with the China Economic Net website - which is designated by the Chinese government as a 'key' media outlet - Senator Dastyari is quoted as extending his "warm congratulations" to the Chinese people on the anniversary of the victory of the "Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War".