This international experience lacks the most significant Hong Kong for China, where all the tricks were learned from. (这句翻译的水平太差)
The author may have been quite clever by avoiding mentioning it, given the Hong Kong riots that occurred a year after the report was released.
As the saying goes, "No crisis, no tax." It is only when faced with the choice between death and sacrifice that most people will choose to make sacrifices. (后面的都挺好,成语也简洁地翻译出来了)