A well-educated, hard-working, flexible, and enterprising workforce has always been one of Hong Kong's greatest strengths.
Britain's police force is institutionally racist. This was the judgement of the 1999 Macpherson report, and it remains the case.
An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.