Exploring the reasons for this, Lu noted that of Asia's 39 countries, at the moment 15 have still not put democratic systems into place. Their leaders are not produced by popular election, their militaries have not been brought under civilian control, human rights records have been poor, and they lack of rule of law and meaningful political party competition.
究其原因，目前亞洲三十九個國家中，仍有十五國尚未實施民主制度：其國家領導人並不是經由公民普選產生、軍隊尚未國家化、人權紀錄普遍不佳，以及欠缺法治基礎及政黨政治等。