ThesisGate: An international PhD scandal involving Taiwan and U.K. - Two years, 1.5 Doctoral Degrees for Ms. Tsai Ing-wen, President of ROC (Taiwan).
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One of the most absurd parts of the ThesisGate -- an international PhD fraud involving Ms. Tsai Ing-wen, President of Republic of China (Taiwan) -- is that she bragged on various occasions dishonestly about her pseudo PhD journey at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
According to her self-displayed student record, Ms. Tsai Ing-wen started to attend the LSE MPhil/PhD programme in October, 1980 and withdrew from this programme on November 10, 1982. Hence, the course length of her Phil/PhD programme registers 21 months only on the student record.
From my investigation, she was interviewed in 2012 by United Daily News (UDN) journalist Ms. Lin Han-Ching (林涵情), and she said in a boastful manner that in less than two years she earned 1.5 PhD degrees at the LSE .
By 1.5 PhD degrees, she meant that she was awarded a PhD degree in law and a half PhD degree in international trade.
At the interview, she also mentioned that most students spent 8 years on average to earn a PhD degree at that time. The interview report (in Chinese) was published on October 4, 2012:
https://dgnet.com.tw/articleview.php…
In fact, earlier on March 17, 2011, Ms. Tsai Ing-wen already boasted about her 1.5 PhD degrees on a series of college campus speeches in Taiwan. The following YouTube video is a condensed version of one of those campus speeches:
Though the videoed speech is in Mandarin, it contains English subtitles to help international people understand how Ms. Tsai Ing-wen bragged about her 1.5 PhD degrees in the past.
By all means, it was a big lie that one can earn 1.5 PhD degrees in less than two years. Of course, you wouldn't be surprised that there were more lies from Ms Tsai Ing-wen to decorate the ThesisGate scandal. I will disclose them step by step over here for the sake of academic integrity, social justice, and human rights.
Hwan Lin, March 9, 2020