Another embarrassment was that the itinerary for the junket, which was ballyhooed as "democratic diplomacy," included some countries which are only at a very early stage of democracy, drawing ridicule over an alleged "gap between rhetoric and reality."
此外，這項名為「民主外交，友誼之旅」的元首出訪，也因不少受訪邦交國的民主政治還在起步階段，而被外界譏諷為「名實不符」。