Why is it an American interest to help the Chinese with their air pollution if they don't want to do it themselves? You are literally doing the meme from the famous https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12227-0 paper.
- By forcing the Chinese to fix their air quality, this indirectly makes then economically less competitive, since they need to tighten their processes.
- Polution travels all over the globe, everyone eventually is impacted.