On September 20, Gao Hongan directly held a press conference to clarify himself, saying that he was wantonly attacked and smeared by his opponent because of the high polls.

According to Global Network , citing reports from media on the island, the green media recently accused the fraud of Gao Hongan of the People's Party Hsinchu mayoral candidate Gao Hongan of the doctoral thesis, but was strongly attacked by Gao Hongan. The storm was getting bigger and bigger on the island.

Previously, the pro-green media "Mirror Weekly" accused Gao Hongan of suspected plagiarism of his doctoral thesis when he was studying in the United States. On September 20, Gao Hongan directly held a press conference to clarify himself, saying that he was wantonly attacked and smeared by his opponent because of the high polls. Gao Hongan said at the press conference that the comparison of doctoral thesis in the school was only 6%, which is completely different from Lin Zhijian. What’s more interesting is that at the press conference, Gao Hongan directly downloaded the doctoral thesis to everyone, which is a solid evidence, and the "Mirror Weekly" accusing Gao Hongan has not yet produced strong evidence to prove his plagiarism, and there is only one accusation. At the press conference on September 20, Gao Hongan also called out to Tsai Ing-wen, hoping that Tsai Ing-wen could do this too.

At noon on September 21, Gao Hongan accepted an exclusive interview with Huang Guangqin on the island program "News Not Celery". In the interview, he couldn't help but shed tears when talking about the relevant controversy. Gao Hongan said directly on the show: "I am not Lin Zhijian! I did not copy!" Huang Guangqin said that the weekly magazine that reported this should theoretically interview Gao Hongan, or fulfill the media's obligation to verify, and only after there is no doubt can the fact be revealed.

In fact, as early as September 2021, Gao Hongan's doctoral degree was questioned once. At that time, Gao Hongan was questioned by a netizen "On Darui", who claimed to be a professor at an American university, accused Gao Hongan of being "exposed" by Li Jie, a supervisor of his academic resume when he was "delisted" with his doctorate degree from the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Gao Hongan himself was low-key and did not respond much, but his tutor Li Jie issued a statement saying that the accusations against Gao Hongan by the news report surprised and disappointed him. Gao Hongan was indeed his student and an excellent doctoral student. The so-called "delisting" is an over-interpretation.

Regarding this rumor, some netizens on the island believed that this might be the actions of the DPP’s Internet Army, which shifted the focus of Tsai Ing-wen’s fake doctoral thesis.

According to the data, Gao Hongan has an excellent academic background: he studied in high school as the most well-known " North First Girl " in Taiwan. He was admitted to the top of the Taiwan Normal University and won the "Fei Taofei Award" of National Taiwan University. He also entered the U.S. to pursue a doctorate.

After Gao Hongan held a press conference, self-clearing and publishing relevant evidence, public opinion on the island responded a lot. According to reports from media on the island, as of 5 pm on September 20, Gao Hongan's positive comments exceeded negative comments, and the news favorability reached 1.12.

In response to the recent "plagiarism" incident in Gao Hongan, some media on the island concluded that they all adopted the same routine. First, a specific media broke the news, and then the party and group held a press conference, and then the wind was brought to the wind on the Internet and social media, and attacked it. This is exactly the same as the Green Camp's cyber attack method.

The reason why Gao Hongan was attacked by Green Media's "paper plagiarism" this time is very simple, because his current election situation is too good and the polls are too high. Gao Hongan also mentioned this at the press conference on September 20.

In this "nine-in-one" election on the island, "paper plagiarism" seemed to have become a major highlight, especially after Lin Zhijian withdrew from the election due to the hot "paper plagiarism", the DPP realized that this is a trump card to crack down on competitors. So the DPP began to use this card to attack opponents. According to the analysis of the island media, in addition to Gao Hongan, the Kuomintang mayor candidate Zhang Shanzheng also encountered the same routine. It may be that the problems in his paper cannot be found, so he has to accuse him of working at 5 years ago and accepting the commission of the "Committee of Agriculture" to study the case for suspected plagiarism.

I have to say that Gao Hongan's election situation has indeed been rising all the time recently. According to the latest online survey on Hsinchu mayoral candidate support rate online released by Ling Media on September 8, the People's Party candidate Gao Hongan led 28.32% of the Kuomintang candidate Lin Gengren and 28% of the Democratic Progressive Party candidate Shen Huihong. The gap between Gao Hongan and the blue and green candidates is more than 5 percentage points.Among them, Gao Hongan is the most popular among the young male ethnic group. In the age group of 20 to 39, more than half of those who expressed their support for Gao Hongan.

This may be an important reason why Gao Hongan was attacked by green media. But this time the DPP seemed to have made a mistake because Gao Hongan had a solid evidence of "no plagiarism".