China is 1.4 B people; why wouldn't it have higher co2 emissions than EU and USA?
Anyways. We can chat about particular data points. But if you look at the broad picture over decades; you really have to be willfully blind to deny massive improvements that have happened.
Human rights? They have started putting Uighurs, Buddhists and Falun Gong into re-education camps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong
Two previous points also counter the rule of law point, which is admittedly a western concept.