According to Taiwan's China Times Electronic News on the 9th, in Taipei, where the competition is the most fierce, the Democratic Progressive Party's Taipei mayor candidate Chen Shizhong recently said that the Taipei mayor election is heading for a negative election, and it is he

Source: Global Times

[ Global Times Special Correspondent Zhang Ruo Global Times Report Reporter Pan Xiaotong ] Only one and a half months have passed since the "nine-in-one" election vote, and the island has been trapped in a "negative election". Not only the political parties staged a "plagiarism war", but also media people and famous people have dug out the 18th generation of ancestors of the candidates.

According to Taiwan's Zhongshi Electronic News on the 39th, in Taipei, where the competition is the most fierce, the Taipei mayor candidate Chen Shizhong recently said that the Taipei mayor election is heading for a negative election, and it is heartbreaking to see it. In response to this, Huang Shanshan, an independent Taipei mayor candidate, asked on the 9th, who was the negative source after Chen Shizhong ran for election? The people's eyes can see clearly. The Kuomintang Taipei mayor candidate Jiang Wanan also criticized the negative election, and Chen Shizhong was complaining about the negative election, but the DPP was the initiator of the negative election. They attacked the Kuomintang Taoyuan mayor candidate Zhang Shanzheng , and the People's Party Hsinchu mayor candidate Gao Hongan, "This is not a negative election, what is a negative election?" Jiang Wanan criticized Chen Shizhong as a member of the accomplice group and was least qualified to complain.

"Paper terror attack" has caused panic

Indeed, this year's "nine-in-one" elections have caused negative election tricks such as plagiarism among all camps, and even various scandals and allusions. Especially after the Democratic Progressive Party’s Taoyuan mayor candidate Lin Zhijian was exposed to plagiarism of the paper and withdrew from the election, the incident turned into a "paper-related attack" in a messy manner. As of the end of September, the Kuomintang Nantou County Mayor candidate Xu Shuhua , Hsinchu Mayor candidate Lin Gengren, Kaohsiung mayor candidate Ke Zhien, Keelung mayor candidate Xie Guoliang, and Yunlin County Mayor candidate Zhang Lishan were all accused of plagiarism, and even Zhang Shanzheng's non-paper research plan was involved.

These days, the focus of the DPP's papers and degree pursuit is Gao Hongan, the candidate for Hsinchu mayor of the People's Party, and Hou Youyi, a mayor of the Kuomintang, , New Taipei . China Times Electronic News said on the 8th that Gao Hongan has been attacked by the green camp recently and has been suspected of plagiarism from the University of Cincinnati in the United States, and has been to attend the National Taiwan University, the privilege of attending the North and the non-Beijing female musicians team. In response, some netizens commented: "The DPP's fight against Gao Hongan has almost gone to no avail." Hou Youyi was questioned by Lin Jialong, the DPP's New Taipei mayoral candidate, "It's strange to study for a doctorate after graduating from college." Subsequently, Hou Youyi's election office announced a statement from the Taiwan Police University, saying that Hou Youyi's admission and graduation qualifications are both in line with the regulations.

However, the so-called "paper gate" is a mud battle, and many people in the green camp were also caught. For example, the candidate for Keelung mayor Cai Shiying, candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party, and candidate for Yunlin County Mayor Liu Jianguo, were both exposed to plagiarism of papers. On October 3, the candidate for Taoyuan City Councillor of the New Party held a press conference, accusing Zheng Wencan, a Taoyuan Mayor of the Democratic Progressive Party, of plagiarism of the master's thesis of Taiwan University. He said that Zheng Wencan’s paper was about mainland issues. If you use the Taiwan paper comparison system to query it, you can’t find it at all. However, when you search in the mainland paper comparison system, you found that “you don’t know it. It’s scary. The plagiarism rate was 30.27%, and 1,222 citations were not added.” He said that in Zheng Wencan's paper, the format of the annotation and references is different, and the format of the same book is different, and it is suspected that it was written by the Gunner.

Regarding this "paper melee", Bao Zhenghao, dean of the School of International Affairs, Tamkang University, Taiwan, believes that plagiarism of papers is at most a grenade on the election field, and who cares about the academic qualifications and papers of politicians. He lamented that when an election reaches the point where "everyone has problems with education/papers", this accusation becomes a farce. Donghua University professor Shi Zhengfeng believes that the election becomes exposing the opponent's papers or academic qualifications, which instead highlights the problems of "cognitive combat" and propaganda bleaching since the Tsai administration came to power, and will only do superficial work.

"United Daily" said that the biggest problem with Lin Zhijian's copywriting is not plagiarism itself, but the attitude of the parties involved after being accused of plagiarism. Especially after National Taiwan University made a resolution, Tsai Ing-wen took the lead in asking the whole party to be firm, and to stand firm until there is no right or wrong, and the value collapses, and eventually even her own family can't stand it.In contrast, Zhang Shanzheng immediately said, "If there is any secret or misunderstanding, he will apologize to the Agriculture Committee on behalf of the team"; Lin Gengren also said that his paper may not be well written, but he has taken the initiative to prepare relevant documents and materials and submitted them to Yangming Jiaotong University for investigation and inspection. The article believes that the academic qualifications involved in the paper are by no means a necessary condition for outstanding politicians, "but the attitude of handling disputes can be used to test whether politicians are qualified and suitable." The China Times said that the DPP fought a "squid war" with the wishful thinking that since its own people could not retort the play of plagiarism, it created the illusion of "black like crows in the world" and treated voters as fools. "Aren't you afraid that the organs would be too smart to do it, but it would ruin the life of the whole party?"

"smearing" and "smearing yellow" made the world angry and resentful

is different from "smearing yellow" everywhere. "smearing yellow" is basically a pro-green media person Zhou Yukou is manipulating it. In order to assist the election for the Taipei Mayor Chan, Democratic Progressive Party, Chen Shizhong, she accused the heroine of the scandal case of Jiang Xiaoyan, the father of the Taipei Mayor Chan, 23 years ago, and this move sparked criticism on the island against Zhou Yukou, Chen Shizhong and the DPP.

Given that Zhou Yukou's successive performances dragged down Chen Shizhong's election, the DPP authorities moved her program from prime time. Zhou Yukou immediately announced that she was silent for a while, but on October 7, she couldn't wait to make a comeback, this time she was aiming at Jiang Wan'an's life experience. She said, "Jiang Wan'an's father, Jiang Xiaoyan, cannot be adopted by the court, nor does he have parent-child relationship DNA verification and comparison. Jian Taiyang, then deputy director of the Ministry of Interior, held a coordination meeting. Taipei Da'an Houzheng, where Ma Ying-jeou was mayor, changed the name of Zhang Xiaoyan's father on his ID card to Cheng Jingguo ." Zhou Yukou also questioned on Facebook that Jiang Wan'an once said in an interview that he had met his great-grandmother Soong Mei-ling at the home of Chen Lu'an (the son of Chen Cheng ) in kindergarten, but Jiang Wan'an was not in Taiwan from birth to the age of 6 or 7. "Who did you see? Memory is wrong? Or did you make up stories and lie to raise your value? Clean your memories 24 hours a day."

In response to Zhou Yukou's pursuit of the 18th generation of ancestors, Jiang Wan'an questioned on the 8th that Chen Shizhong and the DPP should make clear to the outside world, do you agree with Zhou Yukou's poor practices of slandering, red and yellowing? Taipei Mayor Ke Wen-je HTML on the 38th, he believed that Zhou Yuke's comeback could reduce the DPP's support rate by another 5%. He also said that using famous speakers and cyber army to control Taiwan will definitely be punished. Shi Zhengfeng said bluntly that it is too extravagant to want a positive election. The so-called political achievements he promoted are piled up with people's tax money. "This time he digs manure and character, it's just right."

"A war of bad things" disappoints people

Beijing United University Taiwan Research Institute Cross-Strait Relations Institute, Beijing, said in an interview with a Global Times reporter that compared with previous sessions, this year's elections show several major characteristics: cold elections; a lot of negative news; the atmosphere of "hating the Democratic Progressive Party" on the island has increased; there are "internal fighting among insiders" in local elections; the struggle within the Democratic Progressive Party to support the Tsai Ing-wen faction and oppose the Tsai Ing-wen faction is fierce and open. He believes that this year's negative election battle is prominently related to the DPP's incompetent governance, its focus on the "squid war" strategy, and its focus on the negative side of competitors and exaggerate it. Wang Zhixiong, a professor at the University of Chicago in the United States, wrote an article on the 6th that Taiwan's elections in recent years have become a show competition due to the rise of the Internet, and of course Tsai Ing-wen was the initiator. After her defeat in the 2018 local election, she changed her election strategy, trained the Internet army, bribed Internet celebrities, and operated the community, "destined that the Taiwan election will be vulgar, entertaining, and mentally retarded from then on."

Taipei University professor Liu Jiawei said that this election is indeed the first time that the candidates have examined the academic background of the most. Unlike the blue and green showdown, in the competition between three parties and even more, voters may not be able to find the candidates who they like completely, and may in the end be inclined to vote for the "most unhateful person". Therefore, if someone has scandals or major problems and is considered "most unhateful", they will be eliminated first. Lu Jianhua, deputy executive of the Taichung Party Committee of the Taiwan People's Party, analyzed on the 7th that the negative election has disappointed many people with politics, and the turnout rate this year may be very low."You can let the Kuomintang take what it should be, but you can't let the People's Party and other forces rush forward." This is the DPP's biggest strategic goal of the current scorched earth war.

Zhu Songling believes that negative elections are harmful to the island's elections but not beneficial. In the short term, political parties are not planning a better future for the people through their campaign vision, but are forced to join the "bad war" initiated by the Democratic Progressive Party. In the long run, negative election battles will continue to erode the original political foundation, make the election battles on the island more dirty, and seriously affect people's judgment and election quality. "This is the consequence of the DPP's manipulation."