China manufactures the most goods though... by a lot, and that's going to be pollution intensive. They are a pretty populated country as well.
US, oil producing countries, Europe are generally a lot worse than China on a per capita consumption basis.
I should clarify, im not trying to let China off the hook.
But production based CO2 per capita is not the only metric. Europe (for example) has outsourced dirty production to China, so they look clean, but it's people in Europe consuming the products China is producing, so it should be on their ledger.
If you look at CO2 from a consumption basis China falls down the list below Europe.
Now... I suppose consumption based metrics better align with peoples behaviors (ie Europeans are more damaging to the environment than Chinese on average).
On the other hand, production metrics point to European countries having stricter environmental policies than China. which to be fair is what you are highlighting. I'm trying to say, yes, but China is manufacturing way more for other countries.
Stricter policies is part of what pushed manufacturing out (and labour costs). Easier to do when you are a service economy.