It’s on a completely different order of magnitude. And actually, yes, pollution far away from major population centers is much better than pollution within cities- regardless of what country it’s in.
The US has just committed to billions of dollars per year in incentives to bring that pollution to the US. Between the IRA's 10-year expansion of incentives for buying cars with US-manufactured batteries and US-mined minerals, Section 45X, the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit, is the reason billions of dollars of battery manufacturing and associated supply chain investments on US soil were announced in 2022.