Since the island of Taiwan entered an electoral society, the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party have often dug up each other's history due to the entanglement of electoral interests. All kinds of bizarre news events will be exposed one by one before the election. The

Since the island of Taiwan entered an electoral society, the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party have often dug up each other's history due to entanglements in electoral interests. All kinds of bizarre news events will be exposed one by one before the election. These scandals that have been exposed include genuine black history and deliberately fabricated fake news, but they will all trigger a chain reaction in Taiwanese society. Now, it has been revealed that Taoyuan mayoral candidate Lin Zhijian of the Democratic Progressive Party has plagiarized his paper, and more than 80% of the entire text has been plagiarized on a large scale, which has shocked the entire society. There have long been incidents of academic misconduct, academic fraud, plagiarism, and even degree buying and selling in Taiwan's academic community. Lin Zhijian was able to graduate successfully despite such simple and crude plagiarism, mainly because Taiwan does not require students to provide plagiarism check reports and original data analysis. Therefore, it is not surprising that such problems arise. What the specific situation is, let me tell you slowly.

Lin Zhijian and Tsai Ing-wen

Why are academic misconduct frequently exposed in Taiwan?

Taiwan’s academic community has long been a hall of science respected by the people on the island. Many experts in Taiwan’s scientific and medical circles also have outstanding achievements. level. However, the dark cloud of academic misconduct has always been hanging over Taiwan's academic community, lingering. is based on the most basic student graduation thesis, because Taiwan is now in a state of "many universities and few students", and some schools have very low requirements for students. Mainland students' graduation thesis must be checked for plagiarism, that is, comparing their own thesis with papers in major databases to obtain a detection report of duplication rate and similarity. If the data is too high, the paper will be asked to revise to reduce the duplication rate. Students in Taiwan do not require this, they do not need to submit their own plagiarism check reports. In 2019, Taiwan Tsing Hua University , Taiwan Chiao Tung University only added new regulations. It is required that starting from the 2019 academic year, graduate students must complete a paper similarity comparison for reference by defense experts before participating in the defense.

Tsinghua University is located in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Taiwan’s semiconductor technology industry is world-renowned and there are many laboratories of various types. laboratories often use the same data from previous years, and younger students directly copy and paste it into their own papers for convenience, resulting in frequent scandals of academic misconduct. Dai Nianhua, Provost of Tsinghua University in Taiwan, said:

"Some parts of research papers in the same laboratory will be passed down from generation to generation. Although the research results are usually different, the research purposes and backgrounds may be very similar. However, when graduate students refer to senior papers, After conversion, use your own words to introduce the background of the paper, rather than copy and paste it directly. "

This is basically a common operation used by mainland students to reduce the repetition rate. It can be seen that Taiwan's academic requirements are much looser than those on the mainland. And it is precisely because of this that many students who do not have time and ability choose to directly plagiarize other people's papers to get by. Some people even took advantage of the information gap between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to plagiarize papers from mainland academic platforms and then submit them to Taiwan's academic platforms. For example, in 2007, Qiu Guanghui, a student at Xuanzang University in Taiwan, plagiarized a large amount of Professor Li Li'an's doctoral thesis from Northwest University "The Evolution of Guanyin Belief in Ancient India and Its Influence to China" in his master's thesis "A Study of Guanyin Belief in Ancient India" spread". The order of experts and masterpieces cited in the paper is exactly the same. Because the platforms between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not interoperable, this kind of plagiarism is highly concealed and difficult to detect.

Xuanzang University

In the process of publishing professional academic papers, a large number of academic papers have been retracted in Taiwan Province, and some officials have even resigned because of this. Yang Nianzu is a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan and the first civilian head of the defense department during Ma Ying-jeou's tenure. When he took office on July 31, 2013, he was immediately exposed by Zhu Zhengqi of the Democratic Progressive Party that an article in the book "Decisive Moment" compiled under his name involved plagiarism. This article was ghostwritten by someone else. In order to look more glamorous, Yang Nianzu, a big man with strong influence in politics and academia, signed it. did not expect that there was a problem with the quality of the article. It plagiarized an article from the mainland's " International Outlook " magazine. The result was that Yang Nianzu resigned quickly just six days after taking office. After Yang Nianzu resigned, Yan Ming from within the military community stepped forward to serve as the head of the defense department. The most serious case of collective academic misconduct in the history of Taiwan occurred in 2014, which also killed a senior official under Ma Ying-jeou.

Yang Nianzu

The famous academic magazine "Vibration and Control" under the British SAGE Publishing Company is a very professional and influential magazine. Many experts and scholars in Taiwan have also submitted articles to them for a long time. In 2014, the magazine discovered anomalies in an article written by Chen Zhenyuan, an associate professor at Pingtung University in Taiwan. According to normal procedures in , every article needs to be recommended by a recommender. Among Chen Zhenyuan’s recommenders, 130 of them were actually fabricated by him. These people did not exist at all. Chen Zhenyuan used technical means to register a large number of fake accounts, then forged relevant identity information, and used these fake accounts to send emails to "Shock and Control" for recommendations. "Vibration and Control" magazine conducted a careful investigation and canceled all of Chen Zhenyuan's 60 papers. After the politicians in Taiwan learned about this, they carefully inspected and found that among the withdrawn papers, not only were articles written by Chen Zhenyuan alone, but some papers were also signed by Chen Zhenyuan and others. The most famous among the co-creators of is Jiang Weining, the then head of Taiwan’s education department.

Jiang Weining

Jiang Weining is a famous civil engineering scholar in Taiwan. In 2012, he became the head of Taiwan's education department. His biggest measure during his term in office was to fine-tune Taiwan's history curriculum and delete information about "Taiwan independence" and "Japanese flattery". This aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Democratic Progressive Party. They mobilized students to protest, which directly led to a major social incident. Jiang Weining has therefore become a thorn in the side of the Democratic Progressive Party and Taiwan independence forces. In 2014, it was reported that Chen Zhenyuan's academic misconduct incident involved Jiang Weining. Naturally, the DPP would not let it go and attacked him immediately. In fact, the article that caused problems with was only a student thesis supervised by Jiang Weining. After it was completed, his and Chen Zhenyuan's names were also added. student writing, the name of the tutor is a "hidden rule" in the academic world and cannot be announced casually. Therefore, Jiang Weining immediately declared that "I don't know Chen Zhenyuan, I have never mentored this person, and I don't know why he signed the name together." But the next day, Jiang Weining went back on his words and admitted: "I have met twice and have no personal relationship with ." It was these two speeches that completely ruined Jiang Weining's academic status and political future.

Jiang Weining steps down

The DPP is best at catching and digging out the dark history of its opponents. As long as it catches the signs, it will get to the bottom of it. media soon also got the news. Jiang Weining and Chen Zhenyuan co-signed an article as early as 2002. After that, there were many articles co-signed, and the cooperation was very close. Chen Zhenyuan’s younger brother Chen Zhenwu is actually Jiang Weining’s student. Chen Zhenwu, Chen Zhenyuan, and Jiang Weining have co-signed as many as seventeen articles. Jiang Weining's two "confession" in front of the media immediately turned into "deception", and his credit was completely ruined. Jiang Weining finally had no choice but to announce his resignation on July 14, 2014. The irony is that on July 15th, the British SAGE Publishing Company officially replied to clarify: "There are five withdrawn articles in co-signed by Jiang Weining. This is not plagiarism or fraud, but there are shortcomings in the paper review process, and there are many co-signers." It may be an innocent party. " But Jiang Weining has committed a political taboo by lying in front of the media that he does not know Chen Zhenyuan, and there is no room for change. In 2015, Taiwan's science and technology department also punished Jiang Weining for "failure to fulfill his supervisory duties."

陈智仁

In addition to procedural flaws, many Taiwanese scholars also use technological means such as falsifying experimental data to beautify their papers, but the results often cannot withstand careful scrutiny. Chen Jianren, the former deputy leader of Taiwan, once co-signed an article with others when he was a technology director, but he did not actually read the article, let alone participate in it. This article was written by Chen Guanyu, a physician at National Taiwan University School of Medicine. He invited nine experts including Chen Jianren and National Taiwan University Vice President Yang Panchi to co-sign. As a result, this article was found to be plagiarized, and Chen Jianren also admitted that he had never participated in it and was only in name. This shows that there are indeed quite a lot of tricks and moisture in Taiwanese papers. These high-ranking officials rely on their status and influence to enjoy academic results without spending any time or energy, and they can distance themselves immediately if something goes wrong. This is also the main reason why political officials frequently have problems with their papers. Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe said it best: "I eat and drink every day, so how can I have time to write papers?"

Ke Wenzhe

Academic misconduct and political struggles

There are indeed many cases of academic misconduct among politicians in Taiwan. For example, the master's thesis written by Liu Wenxiong, the former deputy secretary-general of the People's People's Party, at Taiwan Ocean University plagiarized the thesis of Huang Wenji, a teacher at the same school. 36 of the charts were exactly the same. Kaohsiung City Councilor Li Yajing was revealed to have plagiarized the work of her supervisor Wang Mingsheng in her master's thesis. Wang Mingsheng later said that he gave the document to Li Yajing and asked her to quote it in the article. Wang Mingsheng bluntly said: " I believe this is not plagiarism, but because there is no literature elsewhere. " From all of this, we can see that academic issues can often trigger a more powerful chain effect in the political arena, and even influence the island of Taiwan. elections within. According to the specific situation in Taiwan, the lack of meticulous review procedures and unclear footnote specifications are the reasons for the problems in the paper. Because in mainland China's academic community, footnotes must be added to any citation of other people's work. Without annotations, it will be counted as plagiarism. However, Taiwan does not seem to have such detailed regulations. Such ambiguity gives those politicians who try to fish in troubled waters an excuse to escape procedural justice.

Liu Wenxiong

The current Taoyuan mayoral candidate Lin Zhijian was exposed to have two articles suspected of plagiarism, with a repetition rate of more than 80%. Academic misconduct can basically be proven. This is bound to severely damage the Democratic Progressive Party's electoral success in Taoyuan. Once Lin Zhijian's academic qualifications are revoked, he will definitely not be able to continue to run. Zheng Yunpeng of the Democratic Progressive Party and others are likely to take advantage of the situation and replace him, but it is not that simple to wash away the negative impact of this news. Speaking of which, the Kuomintang has really taken on a new look since Zhu Lilun returned from the United States. In the past half month, Taipei City Councilor Wang Hongwei has fiercely attacked the academic misconduct case of Lin Zhijian's thesis. Tainan City Councilor Xie Longjie has also revealed the case of Tainan City Mayor Huang Weizhe on suspicion of corruption and extortion of bribes. The moves are sharp and bloody. . Once these two cases of are implemented, the wind will immediately develop in the direction favorable to the Kuomintang. This also makes me doubt. Do Americans really choose to abandon Pipa and favor the Kuomintang again? From the current information, the evidence is not enough. It is very likely that these two scandals were caused by internal strife within the DPP itself, causing them to expose themselves and attack each other.

Wang Hongwei

In the Yang Nianzu incident, there were rumors that the then "Chief of Staff" Yan Ming was dissatisfied with civilians controlling defense and deliberately leaked relevant information to the media. In today's Lin Zhijian paper plagiarism case, the details are huge but the logic is clear. The Kuomintang uncovered the truth step by step and dragged Lin Zhijian's professor Chen Mingtong into the water, successfully spreading the incident. This is very similar to the usual steps of the Democratic Progressive Party in the past, not the style of the Kuomintang. In the case of Xie Longjie's exposure of Huang Weizhe's corruption case, the person who was asked for a bribe vividly recited the key details of Huang Weizhe holding out a finger to represent NT$10 million when asking for a bribe. This routine is completely the DPP's old routine. Technique. The two fraud cases of have already had an impact on this year's county and mayoral elections, severely damaging the Democratic Progressive Party and Tsai Ing-wen's election. The wind direction at the end of the year is likely to be completely reversed because of this.

Xie Longjie

From a certain point of view, there are many people in the DPP who do not want Tsai Ing-wen to go smoothly in the election campaign at the end of the year. For example, Tsai Ing-wen’s former opponent and today’s deputy, Lai Qingde, the young leader of the new trend faction of the Democratic Progressive Party, does not want Tsai Ing-wen to win at the end of the year. If Tsai Ing-wen loses the election at the end of the year, Tsai Ing-wen must hand over the position of chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, and Lai Qingde can legitimately replace her, and then directly aim at the leadership of Taiwan in 2024. Lin Zhijian and Huang Weizhe are both politicians whom Tsai Ing-wen trusts very much. Huang Weizhe was specially selected by Tsai Ing-wen to balance the internal factions and suppress the new trend. Lin Zhijian was the Taoyuan mayor candidate who squeezed out Zheng Yunpeng, a member of the new trend faction. qualifications. Both of these people have had grudges with the New Trend Group, and the New Trend Group has enough motivation to attack these two people. As the saying goes, "the tides are turning," the Democratic Progressive Party has also begun to fight within itself. Let us wait and see how the situation develops in the future.