[Text/Observer Network Li Tianyu]
Is the doctorate degree of Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of the Taiwan region, fake? Recently, such doubts have been heard on the island.
took the lead in making this question is Cao Changqing, a green camp "famous mouth" with many labels such as "Taiwan independence" and "anti-Communist".
Picture from Cao Changqing's Facebook
On June 10, he published a long article on Facebook with the title "Is Tsai Ing-wen's Ph.D. fake?" A doctoral dissertation at the London School of Economics (LSE) appears as "Missing" on the IALS website.
Cao Changqing said that resubmitting the thesis is now a very simple matter, but it has been 35 years since Tsai Ing-wen got her degree in 1984, but she has not resubmitted or resubmitted the thesis. Especially after being questioned in 2016, Cai still ignores this issue related to a major personal reputation, which can be said to be very strange and unreasonable.
Cao also attached two replies purportedly from LSE library staff. The first letter from
stated that according to regulations, all LSE doctoral dissertations in the semester Tsai Ing-wen received her degree should first be sent to the University of London Library, and then sent to IALS. However, the University of London library has never actually received Tsai Ing-wen's papers, so IALS naturally cannot find them. The
staff also said that after Tsai Ing-wen became the leader of the Taiwan region, the LSE made a lot of efforts to find the paper, but the results were "frustrating". The second reply from
showed that the LSE had made efforts to search the records of its library, the University of London library and the Institute for Advanced Study of Law, but still could not find Tsai Ing-wen's doctoral dissertation.
Tsai Ing-wen's resume on the official website of the DPP, posted by Cao Changqing, shows that Tsai Ing-wen "has obtained a master's degree in law from Cornell University in the United States, and then moved to the United Kingdom, where he majored in law and minored in international trade at LSE, and was awarded a doctorate in law. Bachelor of Science". And marked in the academic achievement column: "The title of the doctoral dissertation is 'Unfair Trade Practices and Safeguard Actions' (unfair trade and defense mechanism), exploring how the local market establishes a protective mechanism in the rapid changes of the international market". In response to Cao Changqing's question, some netizens posted "evidence" that they defended Tsai Ing-wen in 2016: First, there is a record of Tsai Ing-wen's paper on the document database website "ProQuest" in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Secondly, in the paper search system of the British Library website, there are also data on Tsai Ing-wen's papers.
ProQuest and the British Library website record Tsai Ing-wen's paper
and Cao Changqing also responded to these rebuttals.
He said that although has Cai's dissertation title in the British Library's Electronic Document Query Center (EThOS), the "Advisor" column is blank. This shows that Tsai Ing-wen has never published the name of her advisor, just like "never submitted a doctoral dissertation". If does not have a supervisor, how will her doctoral dissertation pass?
He also pointed out that the so-called "dissertation publishing" on the ProQuest website is deceptive, because LSE's reply has confirmed that Tsai Ing-wen's paper has never been submitted to the library, so where does publication come from? In addition, in the era when Tsai Ing-wen received his degree, it took a certain amount of time to publish papers. For example, when Wu Zhaoxie received his doctorate in 1989, it was not published until 1995. The most important thing is that if has published Tsai Ing-wen's paper, then there will be no problem of finding it now.
In addition, Cao Changqing also pointed out that in his autobiography, Tsai Ing-wen, who claimed to be "excellent to the selection committee members of the School of Political Science and Economics, was excited to give her a half-doctorate" has only published "1.5 articles and half a book" since 1984. , an English article about Taiwan's entry into the WTO and a Chinese article co-signed with Wu Zhaoxie (currently "Taiwan's Foreign Minister").Even her so-called autobiography, "Scrambled Eggs with Onions to Xiaoying Bento," was written by someone else (Liu Yongyi), and she took the title herself.
It is worth mentioning that the article jointly signed by Tsai Ing-wen and Wu Zhaoxie is titled "Unfair Trade and Defense Mechanisms" which is exactly the same as his doctoral dissertation. What is even more intriguing is that when Tsai Ing-wen published this article, Wu Zhaoxie's name was ranked first, but his own name was ranked last.
From this, Cao Changqing guessed that Tsai Ing-wen and Wu Zhaoxie knew each other in 1982 when they went to school in the United States at the same time, and then had a "cooperation" on the thesis.
He also pointed out that in the three years after Tsai Ing-wen was elected as the leader of the Taiwan region, Wu Zhaoxie successively served as "Secretary-General of the National Security Council", "Secretary-General of the Presidential Office" and "Minister of Foreign Affairs" and three important positions of real power. . What is even more "suspicious" is that Taiwan has ushered in a wave of "breaking diplomatic relations" during Wu Zhaoxie's tenure as "foreign minister", but Wu's official position is still solid. Cao Changqing speculates that Tsai Ing-wen is Wu Zhaoxie's "iron backstage", because if Wu Zhaoxie speaks out that Tsai Ing-wen's thesis is a ghostwriter, it will cause an irreversible and devastating blow to Cai's political career.
Cao also quoted an article in the British " Guardian " in 2011, saying that London School of Economics and Political Science had a scandal of "selling degrees", such as Saif, the second son of former Libyan leader Gaddafi. · Gaddafi 's Ph.D. obtained in 2008 was revealed to be "bought" from the school. The scandal also led to the resignation of several school officials, including the dean of the school.
Finally, Cao Changqing also gave Tsai Ing-wen's method of "self-certification of innocence":
1. Publicly publish his doctoral thesis, publish the name of the doctoral thesis supervisor, and announce Cai's autobiography that he would give her "two The name of the selected professor.
Second, explain your doctoral dissertation, why should you add the name of Wu Zhaoxie, the head of the foreign affairs department of the Taiwan authorities, and put Wu's name first when publishing the abstract in Chinese.
has invented "Taiken" and "Ancient and Modern Taiwai" and other strange "new languages" green camp program supporter Peng Wenzheng also supported Cao Changqing on Facebook on June 11, saying that he "did all the verifications" , and the conclusion is "I agree with Cao Changqing's point of view". He also called it "the weirdest thing I've seen in academia in 25 years."
Peng Wenzheng's Facebook
In a post, Peng Wenzheng satirized Tsai Ing-wen as "the most mysterious scholar" and said that Tsai Ing-wen has no other excuse to stop public opinion except publishing all electronic files of academic works.
According to a report from the China Review Agency on June 12, Wu Zhaoxie denied the question of writing Tsai Ing-wen's paper on his behalf on the evening of the 11th, and Tsai Ing-wen has not yet responded to the matter.
And Cao Changqing's Facebook page is full of highly consistent comments, namely "Cao Changqing smears Tsai Ing-wen", "Cao Changqing is Lai Qingde's thug" or "Cao Changqing splits the green camp", etc., and some people keep posting the British Library page with In 2016, the London School of Economics and Political Science congratulated Tsai Ing-wen on the news that she was elected leader of the Taiwan region.
However, some netizens said that it is not difficult to take out the paper and slap in the face, and Tsai Ing-wen and her supporters refuse to publish the paper "there must be a reason".
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