Buying Chinese goods is not a smart method to retaliate against the USA.

I'm seeing way too many people suggesting that Canada needs to economically open up to China to deal with the looming US trade war. This is a completely unreasonable stance because China is not in any way a fair trade partner themselves, and has actually demonstrated on repeated occasions that they will absolutely do the same thing that the USA is engaged in to have their demands met.

If you read the above speech, this is just a simple demonstration of actions done by China. It mentions Lotte Corporation. My FIL spent a large part of his later career on the board of directors for the Chinese division of Lotte and helped establish its presence in China. It is pretty much gone now, because Korea and China had a dispute, and China basically ran Lotte's Chinese division into the ground on purpose because Korea wouldn't waver against Chinese demands to remove an American anti-nuclear missile system. China itself was the reason it had to be deployed to protect the South from the North, since it is well known China has been using shell companies to export weapons materials to North Korea and is likely why they were able to proliferate viable nuclear missile systems.

Australia is another example. China basically destroyed entire vineyards after it imposed a 200% tariff on Australia because the Australian government demanded an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 and wouldn't let up on the demand.

Don't forget that there is lots of evidence that Nortel Systems, a Canadian tech giant, failed because of corporate espionage originating from the Chinese corporation Huawei.

Thinking that this is a situation where China is suddenly our economic friend, and we should let BYD and Chinese phones flood into our market to get back at the USA is very far from being in our best interests.