Keelung City Council candidate Jiang Xinyi revealed this morning that the doctoral thesis of the Democratic Progressive Party Keelung Mayor candidate and "legislator" Tsai Shiying is suspected of plagiarism. Jiang Xinyi questioned Cai’s failure to answer the question and claimed

Keelung City Council candidate Jiang Xinyi revealed this morning that the doctoral thesis of the Democratic Progressive Party Keelung Mayor candidate and "legislator" Tsai Shiying is suspected of plagiarism. Cai responded at noon that he was attacked only when he was in the lead in the election, and the paper was fine. Jiang Xinyi questioned that Cai did not answer the question, and claimed that it complies with academic norms, "Is the face made of steel plates?"

Cai Shiying

In the face of Jiang Xinyi's criticism, Cai Shiying's camp reiterated its response at 2 o'clock at noon. First of all, it may be that he chose to be in the lead, so his opponent deliberately attacked with papers. Secondly, before graduating from the Institute of Urban Planning of Taipei University, he had passed the thesis comparison system according to the school's regulations and complying with academic standards. The school would agree to his graduation and award his doctorate degree.

Jiang Xinyi and Taipei City Council candidates Liu Shijie and Chen Zhiming said this morning that Tsai Shiying's doctoral thesis was not publicly online. After photocopying and comparison, it was found that there were 3 controversial points: 25 copies of 30 documents were not included in the references, the proportion of the conclusions of the paper was suspected of plagiarism of 33%, and the paper was copied word by word Wikipedia and Baidu.com on the mainland.

Cai Shiying said at noon that he might be locked and attacked because he was in the lead in the election. Moreover, the thesis will only agree to him after comparing the academic norms. His doctoral thesis will be fine. Jiang Xinyi responded that she was very sorry that Cai did not respond to the plagiarism issue, and linked serious academic ethical disputes to the election in an attempt to blur the focus.

She said that the paper comparison results were clearly presented in the morning, and Cai Shiying did not answer the specific question, what is the reason? When plagiarism reached this level, it even claimed to comply with academic standards. "Do you have a steel plate?" Today, I will send out a letter of report and report materials, asking Tsai Shiying not to avoid it anymore and not to miss it. (Xue Yang/Edited)