Admits China won’t stop but says USA’s top should. Reminds me of City in the Edge of Forever

Unsure about your reference, but is your argument: Someone else is doing it, so I should be allowed to as well.

That's basically the western companies complaining that they can't compete with China because Chinese companies are allowed to polute more, so they would be allowed to polute as well. I don't buy that. Once you realise that you're doing something wrong or dangerous, you stop, regardless of what everyone else is doing and what rules they have to follow.