I think you'll find the Chinese have more emissions regulations than the U.S. (even China signed the Paris agreement) and that they infinitely more staff for any task - the population of the USA is less than a quarter than of China. While American students study the old testament, STEM universities in the USA are crammed full of Chinese students taking their bilingual skills and engineering/scientific training back to China - where they will dominate every future market. America will still be polluting the planet, light years behind, in denial to the end