"human right abuses, animal rights abuses, environmental abuses"

We still have a ways to go there, too..

It's easy to forget that China only really just within our lifetime reached the point in their history that we went thru over a hundred years ago. They are learning and changing as they interact with the world.

China largely isolated itself for MILLENNIA..... that has a lot to do with its problems. The wall is coming down, and the Chinese learn more about other ways of thinking. That brings up LANGUAGE, which is deeply connected to how these things manifest... its syntax is a factor in cultural views, and the syntax is very different from western languages.

Better to keep opening China up to the world, I think. Having them get isolationist would just create military frictions.