President Tsai plagiarized her own piece from a university publication: US attorney

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/03
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

President Tsai Ing-wen (second from left) receiving sports stars at the Presidential Office Thursday October 3. (By Central News Agency)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Despite the Presidential Office having presented its case about President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Ph. D. dissertation, a prominent media personality still took his doubts about its authenticity to the top government watchdog Thursday (October 3).

Yang Sen-hong (楊憲宏) told the Control Yuan that Tsai had “plagiarized” her own work from a National Chengchi University publication to put into her dissertation without revealing the fact to the LSE, the United Daily News reported.

The content and even the footnotes in both pieces were completely the same, but the university periodical had been published first, in June 1983, while the dissertation had been submitted in October of the same year, said New York attorney Tung Wen-hsun (童文薰), who accompanied Yang Thursday.    [FULL  STORY]