[Ok, but I don’t think it is an explanation for the question.
That’s not why Ukraine gets the coverage and obsession whereas Hong Kong is ignored.
And there was a lot of street fighting among youth and police. It was not meant to kill anyone though on either side.
Firebombs and Molotov cocktails, barricades. Meant to show their resistance and to delay police from getting to demonstrations.]
Ultimately, if you want foreign support, you need to risk your lives in large numbers, and be able to pose, in manpower and material terms, some likelihood of at least keeping your cause alive. Ukraine fits that classification. Hong Kong doesn’t. And if Taiwan continues along its present course, and doesn’t put tens of thousands of Chinese troops in the ground if they attempt to cross the Formosa Strait, the nation will be treated more or less the same way as Hong Kong.
If the Taiwanese are prepared to fight, we will probably back them with weaponry and non-military supplies. That will likely also involve sinking Chinese shipping and shooting down Chinese aircraft if they mount a blockade or declare an exclusion zone covering the island and its waters. But if Taiwan falls to a Chinese invasion in short order, the way Kiev was supposed to be occupied in 3 days, I doubt the cavalry is going to show up for a war the Taiwanese aren’t willing to fight themselves.
“The problem is that demonstrations by tiny numbers of people in the streets, combined with little more than contrary opinions from the vast majority of the populace suggest that discontent isn’t anywhere like that in Ukraine.”
There were literally millions of people demonstrating for years and when the law was introduced, it went in for weeks.
The district elections also showed near universal support for Hong Kong’s continued autonomy.
It’s hard to know why you say such ludicrous things.
You obviously did not follow the events.
You are subtle but show yourself as 共匪 a fair amount.