User:VodkaWaka/Dissgate of Ing-wen Tsai

"Dissgate(dissertation-gate) of Ing-wen Tsai," which is translated from the title「蔡英文論文門」in Mandarin, is a series of events those are based on facts and reasonable doubt, for finding the actual existence of Tsai's doctoral dissertation owned by LSE in 1980s, and clarify the connection between Tsai's doctoral dissertation and doctor's degree awarded at LSE. The President of Taiwan(Republic of China), Ing-wen Tsai, claims herself graduated from LSE as her educational background, started her teaching career in university since 1984, then had distinguished employed by the government since 1986, ran for election since 2004, and became the Presidents of Taiwan(ROC) in 2016.

Overview
Related discussions started in 2015. Before the 14th presidential election of Taiwan(ROC) in 2016, the journalist Yu-kou Zhou spilled the beans about a group of people were sent to the USA by Kuomintang(Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as KMT), to investigate Ing-wen Tsai's thesis in order to find out any negligence, and may use it to against Tsai about using the identical topic for both of her master’s and doctor’s dissertations. A party member of DPP(Democratic Progressive Party), also the legislator Chi-mai Chen in 2015, responded that Ing-wen Tsai graduated from the Cornell University, and no dissertation is required for gaining the Master's Degree; KMT won't find anything, and no any plagiarism even exists.

In May 2019, Ing-wen Tsai, who was seeking re-election as the President of Taiwan(ROC), once again, was questioned about her dissertation. On May 20th, Dr. De-fen Ho, the Emeritus Professor of College of Law at the National Taiwan University, held a press conference named "Calling for the President Ing-wen Tsai", stated that she (De-fen Ho) never can find Ing-wen Tsai's dissertation owned by LSE(The London School of Economics and Political Science). On August 29, De-fen Ho, again, held a press conference to announce an independent investgation report, made by Dr. Hwan-chiang Lin, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Based on the report by Lin, the LSE Library has never received Ing-wen Tsai's dissertation, and Tsai faxed it to LSE until June 28, 2019.

In early September 2019, The President of Taiwan(ROC), Ing-wen Tsai, filed a lawsuit against Dr. Hwan-chiang Lin, Dr. De-fen Ho, and the former Director & Professor of the Graduate Institute of Journalism at the National Taiwan University, also the host of a political talk show ”True Voice of Taiwan” Dr. Wen-zheng Peng for “Offense Against Reputation and Credit”.

On September 27, 2019, Ing-wen Tsai's dissertation was made public by the National Central Library of Taiwan(ROC). On October 8, 2019, a statement about Ing-wen Tsai’s degree awarded, appeared on the official website of LSE, in "News" section:

“...We can be clear the records of LSE and of the University of London - the degree awarding body at the time - confirm that Dr Tsai was correctly awarded a PhD in Law in 1984...”

However, this statement was criticized: no legitimate exists for the statement written with no one's signature on it ; also, the terms of use of the website of LSE, section 2.7, states:

"We are a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and users of the internet. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, or users, are those of the authors or distributors and not of us. We do not necessarily endorse nor are we responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Website."

In 2019, when the legislator Xue-sheng Chen investigated Ing-wen Tsai's promotion materials at Cheng Ji University, he found that Ing-wen Tsai's promotion materials were all sealed as "Confidential" until the end of 2049. The legislators of Pan-Blue Coalition held a public hearing called "Establish Processing Principles of Objectivity and Impartiality in Violation of Academic Ethics" on November 28, 2019. Dr. Wen-zheng Peng and Dr. De-fen Ho were invited.

Ing-wen Tsai called herself “PhD in International Economic Law” in a political journal called "Chengchi Law Review", which specific issue was published in June 1983, even before the date she claimed about passing the oral defense of her dissertation in LSE.