Are you under the impression Hong Kong had a military?
No, but at least your question confirms that you never actually read my initial post, which said:
"Don't get me wrong - Hong Kong had no real chance militarily against China and it would have been a futile gesture. I'm not blaming them for not committing suicide.
My answer to the question posed by the thread title remains the same - There was no attention-grabbing shooting war between Hong Kong and China as there is between Russia and Ukraine, so it gets less attention from the public and the press. That's not blaming or faulting the citizens of Hong Kong - they were not in the same position to fight militarily as was Ukraine. But the lack of a shooting war meant fewer headlines, and less attention because there was no world-startling singular moment equivalent to Russia tanks rolling over the Ukraine border.
And, of course, the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong was a fait d'accompli, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine isn't.
Where exactly is the flaw in that reasoning?