^This is what happens when you have global media hegemony, saturate the media with multiple articles on the issue, laden it with dramatisation, half-truths, speculation and assertions to smear the reputation your political competitors.
In contrast, publish 1-2 articles on similar troubles elsewhere, never mention it again.
There is a direct correlation between how much media coverage an issue receives and how much the US want the country the issue occured in to fail.
During the protests in Hong Kongs, there are a other protests hitting other parts of the world, Chile, Iraq, Kashmir etc, all of them reached death tolls in the hundreds. Yet you will not see the media talking about it and most of the people didn’t even know they happened, in fact I do not even remember a single leader of the so called developed world publicly commenting on it despite it being their favourite past time.
You can pretty easily see this through how much the diplomatic stance of Anglophone and non Anglophone countries differ.