Social media is gradually becoming an important field for young people to obtain information, build identity, and express themselves. Chinese international students study bloggers on Rednotes have continuously shaped the image of "excellent international students" by sharing their learning experience, academic achievements, background of prestigious schools, and career plans, making education meritocracy a social performance that can be displayed, watched, and recognized. Based on Goffman's dramaturgical theory, this article adopts the qualitative content published by the learning bloggers of Chinese international students in Rednote and explores the performance mode of educational meritocracy and its social impact. The study found that learning bloggers build a successful image that meets the expectations of society by selectively displaying the background of famous schools, academic performance, scholarship, internship experience, and positive growth narratives, and continuously strengthen this identity performance with the help of the audience's likes, comments, and interactions. At the same time, this performance has a double impact: on the one hand, it can stimulate learning motivation, provide experience reference, and enhance individual learning enthusiasm; on the other hand, it is also easy to strengthen the single standard of success with academic achievement as the core, triggering social comparison and aggravating the psychological pressure and anxiety of some audiences. This article reveals the digital performance and reproduction mechanism of educational meritocracy in social media, which provides a new perspective for understanding the identity construction and success concept of young people in the digital age.

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Hong Kong has long faced a severe housing shortage. Under an efficiency-driven approach, the existing legal frameworks governing land-use planning, building safety, and tenancy are subject to unprecedented tension. Employing normative analysis and comparative-law methods, and drawing on the representative controversy of the Kai Tak Olympic Avenue Light Public Housing project, this paper systematically examines three regulatory dilemmas: first, the procedural-justice concerns arising from the application of planning-permission mechanisms and the simplification of public-participation procedures in land-use change; second, whether the special approval mechanism for Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) undermines statutory building-safety safeguards and how regulatory responsibility should be allocated across cross-border prefabrication; and third, the rights vacuum experienced by tenants in areas such as early termination, maintenance liability, and utility-fee pricing after short-term leases are excluded from Part IVA of the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance. The paper proposes unified regulation under existing legislation, the establishment of minimum tenant-protection standards, and the creation of a full-process MiC safety-supervision and inter-departmental joint-regulation mechanism, so as to strike a dynamic balance between "efficiency" and "rule-of-law safeguards."

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Against the background of economic globalization and the promotion of "One Belt, One Road" initiative, international commercial disputes have become increasingly complex, and the China International Commercial Court (CICC) came into being. However, its jurisdiction system is still in the primary stage of development and faces many practical issues. This paper focuses on the jurisdiction system of CICC, focusing on the three core contradictions of judicial orientation, concept definition and jurisdiction. By comparing the relevant practices in Singapore, Dubai and other countries, this paper analyzes the basic content, development and existing disputes of the jurisdiction of China's international commercial courts, and finds that there are some problems in it, such as obvious tendency of nationalization, vague definition of core concepts, and limitation of the amount of litigation subject matter of 300 million yuan. The research puts forward that people should establish the "international standard" judicial orientation, clarify the definition of core concepts, optimize the design of jurisdiction rules, and strengthen international judicial cooperation as improvement paths. This study attempts to provide ideas for improving the jurisdiction system of CICC, help improve China's international judicial status, and better facilitate the resolution of cross-border commercial disputes in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

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Energy security is now linked to environmental protection and climate governance. Because of this, energy-related trade measures have become an important issue in both geopolitics and environmental politics. This paper asks how these measures can be justified under WTO law, especially under GATT Article XX.This paper uses discursive institutionalism as its theoretical framework. It studies legal rules, WTO case law, and the way states justify their policies under Article XX. It uses qualitative analysis of three cases: the EU–Russia Energy Dispute (DS476), China–Rare Earths (DS431, DS432, DS433), and India–Solar Cells (DS456). The cases show that states often use discourse to build legitimacy for their energy policies. They use ideas such as energy security, environmental protection, and climate goals to explain their measures. But WTO Panels usually read Article XX in a narrow way. They require strict proof of necessity, proportionality, and evidence. As a result, most state claims fail to meet these standards. This shows a gap between political legitimacy and legal legitimacy. States may present their policies as legitimate through discourse, but this does not mean that the WTO will accept them as legal exceptions. This paper connects discourse analysis with legal interpretation. It also helps explain how states may better align energy policies with WTO rules.

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