John Rambo: "Are you bringing any weapons?" Burnett: "No of course not." John Rambo: "Then you're not changing anything."[1] That is an answer. Everyone has

John Rambo: "Are you bringing any weapons?" Burnett: "No of course not." John Rambo: "Then you're not changing anything."[1] That is an answer. Everyone has a finite amount of time available to them. Trying to influence the Hong Kong situation from overseas may very well be a net-negative (the aforementioned exploitable "Westerners fomenting civil unrest" angle), or a net-neutral effect at best (assuming China just ignores all the gweilo[2] making noise and everyone proceeds under their own agency to resolve their internal problems). In either of those possible cases, you can maximize your contribution to global well-being by....focusing on a problem elsewhere, likely one closer to home. [1]https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/john_rambo/quotes/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/john_rambo/quotes/ [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo