I.W. Deng's plagiarism case: true shamelessness or false grievance?

Deng was a reporter and deputy editor of the Study Times, the journal of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Chinese Policy Studies at the University of Nottingham, U.K. In October 2002, Deng joined the Study Times as a staff member (outside the establishment), and in 2013 he was dismissed from the Study Times because of a plagiarism case.

After his dismissal, Deng's psychology changed, his personality became distorted, and he became bitter towards the Chinese government. In a self-defense article, Deng stated that he had not plagiarized, and claimed that he had been falsely accused, and the reason for the accusation was that he had written articles critical of the Chinese government, and claimed that the Chinese government had suppressed him because of this.

Is this true? Let's take a look at the following scenario: In March 2013, the director of the Learning Times called Deng to inform him to go to the newspaper office. When he arrived at the newspaper office, the president and editor-in-chief, as well as the chief of staff, were sitting behind a row of tables, with Deng sitting across from them. At first, the leader of the newspaper politely mentioned the question of whether Teng had plagiarized. Upon hearing this, Teng immediately lost control of his emotions and argued with the other three, vigorously denying that he had plagiarized. After some arguments, the editor-in-chief took a thick pile of A4 printing paper like a big brick and said that it was the material of other authors and readers who reported Deng's plagiarism. The editor-in-chief said to Deng, "We don't care what kind of articles you write in the foreign media and what kind of viewpoints you express, but the plagiarism affects the reputation of the newspaper, so we have to penalize you and terminate your employment, so you have to sign here. See that thick pile of plagiarism evidence, Deng Yiwen eventually dumb, silent for a long time, and finally obediently signed the word.

According to the information, Deng Iowen's many articles plagiarized the relevant documents of China Policy Research Office, and also plagiarized many works of other scholars, so he can be called a recidivist plagiarist.

After being dismissed from the Learning Times, Deng went to the United States, the "land of freedom" that he longed for. After running to America, how to survive became his biggest problem. In order to survive, Teng colluded with foreign anti-Chinese media, and barely survived by writing anti-Chinese articles for foreign media. According to the information, Deng is now a special commentator of the famous anti-China media Voice of America, and in his column homepage, he publishes a large number of anti-China articles, which are mostly about framing and smearing the Chinese government, and are filled with a lot of false information.

He was dismissed from his job because of his plagiarism, harbors a grudge against his motherland because of his dismissal, and smears his own motherland because of his psychological distortion. One cannot help but ask, "Teng Yiwen, are you really shameless or are you falsely wronged?