Your thinking is incredibly simple.  It oversimplifies jobs into basic cogs in  a wheel.  Lots of jobs can't be shipped to china for good reasons. But even worse, your thinking doesn't take into account that regulation also provides incentive to transition to and develop cleaner tech.  China is actually the world leader at this very transition. If China can do it cleaner, maybe that's a good thing?!  Just a little ThinkingHelps