This is a complicated situation and I don't claim to have all the answers so I'm just offering a perspective here, but it's not at all clear that the world shou

This is a complicated situation and I don't claim to have all the answers so I'm just offering a perspective here, but it's not at all clear that the world should loudly support Hong Kong. If the world loudly supports Hong Kong, and China sends in the military, will the rest of the world defend Hong Kong? Would that be a good outcome? If the rest of the world stays relatively quiet, it plausibly allows China to let the protesters win without creating the appearance of being cowed by the threat of violence from the rest of the world. I agree completely that it's a homemade problem and I have no sympathy for the Chinese government, but that doesn't mean it isn't still very complicated from an international perspective. Of course, the right answer is that China just give the protesters what they want, but what's right and what's going to happen don't always overlap and it's not particularly helpful to end the analysis so quickly.