My claim is that a large part of the cost effectiveness of importing from China is the outsourced cost of pollution, which will remain minimal (and competitively unfair) while China keeps turning a bind eye on it (which wouldn’t fly in non-authoritarian countries with freedom of information). And you haven’t disproved nor addressed that, only been fussing around arguing semantics.
My claim is that a large part of the cost effectiveness of importing from China is the outsourced cost of pollution, which will remain minimal (and competitively unfair) while China keeps turning a bind eye on it (which wouldn’t fly in non-authoritarian countries with freedom of information). And you haven’t disproved nor addressed that, only been fussing around arguing semantics.