Taiwan media person appealed Tsai Ing-wen's "doctoral dissertation does not exist", hundreds of people listened to crowded the court
Overseas Network, January 20. Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-wen’s doctoral dissertation once sparked controversy. Taiwan’s senior media person Peng Wenzheng questioned the authenticity of Tsai Ing-wen’s degree and filed a lawsuit for “confirming that the doctoral dissertation does not exist”. Taiwan’s “High Court” on the 20th The court debate was held, and hundreds of people attended the crowded court.
According to reports from "United Daily News" and "Zhongshi News Network", Taiwanese media person Peng Wenzheng questioned the authenticity of Tsai Ing-wen's degree and raised a lawsuit for "confirming that the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) thesis does not exist in 1984".
The first instance of the Taipei City Court held that whether the thesis exists or whether Tsai Ing-wen has a doctorate is a "mere fact of matter" and not a legal relationship. The verdict lost the case and Peng Wenzheng appealed against it.
Taiwan's "High Court" held a speech debate on the 20th. The presiding judge said that the current literature does not clearly define the "basic facts" and hopes that both parties will provide their opinions, while Peng's lawyer hopes to send back for trial.
According to the report, hundreds of people came to watch the scene, and the court auditorium was not only full, but even the "stands" were overwhelmed.
An elderly person specially dressed in a doctor's uniform to observe. Halfway through the court session, he suddenly stood up and said that he was a "Doctor of Electrical Engineering", and introduced the former professor of National Taiwan University and others sitting on his left hand side, saying, "Without a degree, there is no doctor." After speaking, applause broke out in the hall.
According to Taiwan media, Tsai Ing-wen’s doctoral dissertation aroused suspicion from the outside world. She once published her doctoral dissertation at the London School of Economics and Political Science, but was questioned by outsiders that eating too many drafts and plagiarizing the paper violated academic ethics.
Peng Wenzheng held a press conference in London on October 19, 2019, appealing to the British media to pay attention to the authenticity of Tsai Ing-wen's academic qualifications, and asked the British School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to answer questions about Tsai Ing-wen's academic qualifications.
Peng Wenzheng claimed that Tsai Ing-wen did not have a doctoral dissertation that passed the LSE review in 1984. Librarians in the University of London Main School Library and the Institute of Advanced Law found that none of Tsai Ing-wen's thesis was collected, and the electronic retrieval system did not have a collection of theses. According to records, there is no paper in Taiwan so far.
The thesis displayed in the LSE Women's Book Reading Room is a "photocopy of the collection of essays" that was photocopied or scanned and sent by electronic fax only on June 28, 2019. The appearance is different from the doctoral thesis of the 1984 graduate.
Peng Wenzheng believes that Tsai Ing-wen failed to submit his doctoral thesis and did not obtain a doctorate.
At the hearing, Peng Wenzheng stated that a doctoral dissertation is a necessary condition for a doctoral degree. Without a dissertation, there is no degree. This involves more than a dozen laws such as fraud, forgery of documents, infringement, and incidental civil compensation. Peng's litigation agent argued that the court should send it back for further trial. (Overseas Net Yang Jia)