I have a Hearthstone package on NPM which gets a few downloads everyday (also from China). Yesterday I removed everything in it and now module.exports is „光復香港 時代革命“ instead of Hearthstone data.
In my mind you have to do something when you see blatant injustice, so it is justified. If you say that what I judge as unjust is political, then fair enough, it may very well be.
If you consider this a difference of opinion between the government and you, then yes, it may be political. In my view core values are not political, because you can't argue for and against them.
Refusing to obey that order from your government is a political decision.
Your protest against someone taking a stand against authoritarian rule is itself politics.
Your decision to use one licence over another when using or publishing software is politics.
Everything is politics, because everything that involves more than one person is politics and the decision to do something without other people is politics.
Everyrhing is politics, but politics isn’t everything.
As a business, you absolutely don't have to declare your stand on the political issues in your country, let alone issues in some places half way across the world.
And especially declare your stand when you're not asked.
Hacking culture and politics are deeply entwined. Phreaking, for example, was a way to say no to AT&T monopoly.