The battle between Tsai Ing-wen and the "independence faction" on the island has been comprehensive. Image source: Taiwan "China Times"
After the Democratic Progressive Party defeat in Taiwan's "nine-in-one" county and city elections in 2018, the leader of the Taiwan authorities Tsai Ing-wen began to attack the "independence faction" on the island. The PTT forum brought the trend of "independence faction is Chihuahua", saying that they have "small power and loud voices"; in 2020, the "independence faction" was a sign that the "independence faction" was under pressure from Tsai Ing-wen.
Tsai Ing-wen gave up "Taiwan independence", which should be affirmed. In order to marginalize the "independence faction", she adopted a two-hand strategy. One is to recruit the "Lin Feifan" who was once the "independence faction" and used resources to exchange their silence against "Taiwan independence"; and for the traditional "independence faction" who adhered to the concept, she was firmly clearing the country, and the first to be the suspension of broadcasting "Political, Economic, and People's Vision" hosted by Peng Wenzheng .
Cutting off the media resources of the "independence faction" did indeed make Lai Ching-te lose in the party's primary election and lose in a sad way. As for the "independence faction" counterattack with the "degree sect" (paper sect), the offense and defense have continued to this day. The degree dispute can only be said to be the one who speaks his own words, and those who believe in it will always believe.
"Degree Gate" has two battlefields. The first battlefield is "Does Tsai Ing-wen have a degree?" and the second is "How did the degree come about." "Is there a degree?" After the University of London issued a statement, the doubts of off-campus people seemed to be lacking in destructiveness; but in "how did the degree come from", Tsai Ing-wen never explained why the doctoral thesis title filled in when applying for a faculty at the University of Political Science and Technology on September 28, 1984 would be inconsistent with the actual situation.
Tsai Office explained that the paper titles filled in by Tsai Ing-wen applied for a teaching position at the University of Political Science and Technology are also chapter titles of actual papers, but who in the world would regard their chapter titles as paper titles? This is really weird enough. A reasonable suspicion is that when Tsai Ing-wen applied for a teaching position, her thesis had not yet been finalized, so what she filled in was only a tentative title. After that, the topic of the thesis was revised, which was inconsistent with the application data of the National Political University.
If this suspicion is true, then Tsai Ing-wen obtained a degree in February 1984 (the statement of the University of London) but revised the paper after September 1984. It can be seen that Tsai Ing-wen did not send the paper when she obtained her degree, which violated the regulations of the University of London; and if the paper is not finalized, it can apply for a teaching position at the University of Political Science and Technology, it is also full of imagination space of "close the theory and go through the back door".
But to be honest, although the "degree gate" occupies the page, this kind of " Rashomon " with no direct evidence must not support Tsai Ing-wen's belief that it has, and supporters believe that it has nothing, which will not affect Tsai Ing-wen's support.
compares black humor , but the "independence faction" is helpless and powerless. Professor Professor Zhuang Bingjie at ZTE University in Taiwan has a divine logic. He said that because he believes that Tsai Ing-wen's governing ability is stronger than Harvard Ph.D. Ma Ying-jeou, so he "has no doubt at all" Tsai Ing-wen's doctoral degree. This passage seems to be a pity to Ma Ying-jeou, but "doctoral degree = governing ability" is actually a belittlement of Lai Ching-te, who only has a master's degree, for "not capable".
Zhuang Bingjie also said: "(Tsai Ing-wen) Before her first term, she planned an energy policy for non-nuclear coal reduction. Although there was a brief clean coal incident in the middle, the entire team quickly returned to the non-nuclear coal reduction policy." Lai Ching-te's "clean coal incident" became the only stain on Tsai Ing-wen's governance in Zhuang Bingjie. Can the "independence faction" have the ability to resist such scholars to escort?
The battle between Tsai Ing-wen and the "independence faction" has been comprehensive, and even the explanation of the "papers" must take the opportunity to belittle Lai Ching-te. At present, the situation of "independence faction" being marginalized has become a reality, and it is marginalized by the Democratic Progressive Party, which originally regarded "Taiwan independence" as the god's masterpiece. The satirical history is sometimes more absurd than movies.
As for the level of the "ruling ability" of Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen, Tsai Ing-wen both followed Ma Ying-jeou's "anti-Taiwan independence" route. Whoever is higher and whoever is lower, is it still worth mentioning? (The author Lian Hongqing is a political staff member in Taiwan)
