Doubts whether PM will ask the important questions during meeting with Xi Jinping
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan joined sky news to discuss his opinions on the matter and raise concerns.
'The protection of over 6,000 manufacturer workers in this country, we've already seen the aggressive industrial tactics of China in Indonesia … That cost 10, 000 Australian jobs last year when our nickel industry effectively went kaput thanks to those tactics,' Mr Canavan said.
'We're now seeing similar things play out in copper, in lead, in zinc, in aluminum, where the Chinese government takes a very aggressive expansion of these key industrial commodities at the expense of jobs and industry in other countries.
'The actions of the Chinese government are clearly in breach of their international trade commitments, and it sort of perplexes me why no one's raising this, we're all talking about this green steel and all this stuff that's not working.
'How about somebody in this country raise their voice for the workers that we currently have, that have their jobs at risk, the Australian Workers' Union have been saying this in the past week. I don't understand why the Labor Party can't stand up for good union jobs.'
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