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You know what's better: change their mindset.
A lot of them do not understand why 'westerner' reacts the way we did to HK protests. If you talk to them they don't even know there was a '89 Tananmen Square massacre. (https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Republic-Amnesia-Tiananmen-Revisited/dp/0190227915)
Overseas students have been traditionally a force for change in Chinese history (The first Chinese Republic, one can argue, was inspired by what Chinese students saw in Japan in 1900-1920s). It is important to make them understand the value of human rights.
And to do so, we need to hold our government responsible on this front. What Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison did to asylum seekers on Manus Island is a disgrace. It weakens our argument against, for example, Xinjiang re-education camps.
If you think this is crazy then you havn't seen China during the cultural revolution or Tiananmen Square, June 4th, 1989.
If you want to learn more about Tiananmen Square there is a book I've been reading recently called The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. It goes into detail about events of those short few days and how China has effectively erased it from the public mind.