As a note on human rights, China's post-Mao governments have brought 850 million of their citizens out of abject poverty. Massive improvements in the most fundamental human rights, the right to

And as I live in Canada where until 1996 we stripped First Nations children from their homes and sent them to residential schools where they died by the dozens and hundreds in a horrific act of cultural genocide, I tend to be a bit careful about throwing stones on human rights.

I'm not sure any country lives up to the 1948 declaration of universal human rights.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights