According to Global Network citing Singapore Lianhe Zaobao, on September 27, People's Party Hsinchu mayor candidate Gao Hongan went to the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office to ring the bell and accuse Pei Wei, president of Mirror Weekly, and others, saying that the weekly report was false and spread rumors and smeared. However, Mirror Weekly insisted that the report was detailed and verified, and it will sue Gao Hongan for false accusation.
September 20, Gao Hongan was revealed by Mirror Weekly that her doctoral thesis was suspected of plagiarism, and she received subsidies to go to the United States to study during her tenure at the "Zijing Sect Association", but her doctoral thesis was copied in large quantities of research cases and papers jointly published with other "Zijing Sect Association" researchers, questioning her use of public resources as a professional springboard.
Then Gao Hongan held a press conference to give a strong response to the reports of pro-green media about "paper plagiarism". At the press conference, she showed strong evidence such as her paper and related repetition rates. Gao Hongan also stated at the press conference that the reason why she was plagiarized by the pro-green media reported on paper was mainly because her polls in the Hsinchu mayoral election were too high, so she was slandered by her opponent. At the end of the press conference, Gao Hongan called out to Tsai Ing-wen, asking Tsai Ing-wen to also publish his doctoral thesis.
But I thought the matter would end like this, but I didn’t expect Gao Hongan to sue the pro-green media Mirror Weekly to protect his reputation. On the evening of September 26, Gao Hongan's campaign office announced that Gao Hongan himself will go to the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office at 8:50 on the 27th to file a lawsuit against the recent reports published by Mirror Weekly. Sure enough, on the morning of the 27th, Gao Hongan himself went to the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office to ring the bell and accused Pei Wei, president of Mirror Weekly, and others of suspected of aggravating slander and "intention to make people unelected" in the "election and revocation law", accusing Mirror Weekly of "abuse of the fourth power" and spreading rumors. The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office has accepted the case.
In response to her lawsuit against the pro-green media, Gao Hongan said that it was a rights protection action initiated by Zhang Shujuan, the former " Miss China ". She took Zhang Shujuan's pro-green media person, Zhou Yukou, as an example, saying that in the face of misunderstandings and cyber bullying, Zhang Shujuan was in great pain, which made her empathize and decided to sue.
For media inquiries about the media, "Mirror Weekly" reported that she used the resources and budget of the "School Association" to achieve her personal studies, Gao Hongan refuted that during her tenure in the "School Association", she worked "step by step" and was worthy of the salary she received. When she was interested in further study, she was also persuaded by the head of the "Scholar Association" to retain her, which shows that the report on "Mirror Weekly" is false.
Since Lin Zhijian’s “paper plagiarism” incident, the “paper plagiarism” incident on the island has been exposed one after another, and the exposed targets are basically candidates participating in the 2022 “nine-in-one” election . Because Lin Zhijian himself was forced to withdraw from the election after passing the "paper gate" incident, and also lowered the DPP's poll support rate, "paper plagiarism" has become an important means of fighting each other between the three major camps of blue, green and white on the island.
But during the exposure, some were just pure revelations and did not provide solid evidence. Taking Gao Hongan as an example, the pro-green media "Mirror Weekly" only gave the revelations, but did not provide any strong evidence. Perhaps for some political forces on the island, as long as the opponent has such signs, they will no longer care about whether there is any solid evidence and will directly expose it first.
Zhang Shujuan and Gao Hongan's approach may open up a legal way to curb the exposure of "paper plagiarism", especially for candidates who are exposed for suspected "paper plagiarism" but have no solid evidence to prove it.
From a theoretical analysis, since Gao Hongan dared to go to the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office to accuse the pro-green media "Mirror Weekly", I believe he must be without any scruples, otherwise he would not dare to use legal means to safeguard his reputation and curb the other party's false accusations. It is worth noting that Mirror Weekly also made a tough response, saying that it has enough evidence to prove that Gao Hongan does have big problems, and Mirror Weekly will also sue Gao Hongan for false accusation.
No matter what the result of this lawsuit is, Zhang Shujuan’s lawsuit against pro-green media person Zhou Yukou on September 26 and Gao Hongan’s lawsuit against pro-green media "Mirror Weekly" on September 27 will start a practice of using legal means to curb some crazy remarks or false statements, that is, the so-called rights protection practices, which also marks that the island’s election may enter a new mode.
