Tsai Ing-wen (Taiwanese media data photo)
Taiwanese's doctoral thesis, a leader of the Taiwan authorities, once caused controversy. Taiwanese senior media person Peng Wen-zheng questioned the authenticity of Tsai Ing-wen's degree and filed a lawsuit to "confirm that the doctoral thesis does not exist". Taiwan's "High Court" held a trial debate on the 20th, and hundreds of people attended the scene and crowded the court.
According to United Daily News and "China Times News Network", Taiwanese media person Peng Wenzhen questioned the authenticity of Tsai Ing-wen's degree and filed a lawsuit "confirm that the paper does not exist in the 1984 London School of Political Science and Economics (LSE) in the UK." The Taipei District Court held that the existence of the paper or whether Tsai Ing-wen had a doctorate degree in the first instance was a "simple factual issue" and was not a legal relationship. The judgment was lost, and Peng Wenzhen appealed. Taiwan's "High Court" held a verbal debate on the 20th. The presiding judge said that the current literature does not have a clear definition of "basic facts" and hopes that both parties will provide their opinions, while Peng's lawyer hopes to send them back for trial.
reported that hundreds of people came to the scene to listen. The court seats were not only full, but even the "stations" were filled. An elderly man came to listen in a special way in a doctoral suit. Halfway through the opening of the court, he suddenly stood up and said that he was a "Doctor of Motors", and introduced the former professor of National Taiwan University and others sitting on his left, saying, "There is no doctoral degree." After speaking, applause rang out in the venue.
Peng Wenzheng (China Times Electronic News)
Taiwan media said that Tsai Ing-wen's doctoral thesis has aroused doubts from the outside world. She once publicly published her doctoral thesis at the London School of Political Science and Economics in the UK, but was questioned by the outside world that she had eaten more manuscripts and plagiarized thesis itself, which violated academic ethics. Peng Wenzheng held a press conference in London on October 19, 2019, asking British media to pay attention to the authenticity of Tsai Ing-wen's academic qualifications, and asked the British School of Political Science and Economics (LSE) to answer relevant questions about Tsai Ing-wen's academic qualifications.
Peng Wenzheng filed a lawsuit that Tsai Ing-wen did not have a doctoral thesis that passed the LSE review in 1984. Librarians from the Library of the General College of London and the Institute of Advanced Law found that they did not collect Tsai Ing-wen's papers, and there was no record of the paper collection in the electronic search system, and there is no paper in Taiwan yet. The papers displayed in the LSE Women's Book Reading Room are "copy of the papers" that were only copied or scanned on June 28, 2019 and were replaced by electronic fax. The appearance is different from the doctoral thesis of a graduate in 1984. Peng Wenzheng believes that Tsai Ing-wen has not submitted her doctoral thesis in a qualified manner and has not obtained a doctoral degree. When
was held, Peng Wenzheng said that doctoral thesis is a necessary condition for a doctorate, and there is no degree without a dissertation. This involves more than ten laws including fraud, forgery of documents , infringement, and civil compensation. Peng's litigation agent argued that the court should send it back for a trial. (Yi Sakura)
