Are you equally shocked that other nations are unwilling to take sides in the various political conflicts that we've lived through in the past decade in the United States?
Generally, it's prudent, in the geopolitical arena, for nation states to keep their noses out of other nations' domestic politics.
We don't have protests at the same scale, nor organized crime being hired to beat people.
> The white-clad activists are suspected to be linked to local organized crime gangs known as triads that operate in the villages on Hong Kong’s more remote fringes, a Hong Kong Democratic Party official told The Wall Street Journal.
I gather that the Triads have had a long and complex relationship with Chinese governments. Going back centuries. So I think that there's more to it than hiring criminals. But I'm not clear just what it is.
Other nations (and international bodies like the UN) have voiced fairly strong opinions on various internal US policy controversies in the last several years.
2. Exactly how much of a care does the citizenry & political leaders give about some UN sub-committee condemning the US?
The politicians he interacts with are, for the most part, smart enough to keep their opinions about his character to themselves... At least, when he's within earshot. If you recall the election, nearly any time some foreign leader was asked about Trump/Hillary, their response would be the inevitable 'We are going to work with whomever wins.'