Modern multinational enterprises (MNEs) operate through complex global supply chains that often conceal labor abuses, environmental damage, and other systemic harms. Traditional legal tools were designed for discrete wrongs by single entities and cannot adequately address these diffuse, structural problems. Recent high-profile litigation against parent companies for supply chain human rights violations has exposed this gap: courts applying traditional doctrines have struggled to hold MNEs accountable when harm occurs overseas. This paper compares how Germany and China have responded to this challenge through legal innovation. Germany adopted the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG), which shifts parent company liability from subjective intent to the objective breach of statutory due diligence obligations. China, through the 2023 Company Law's horizontal piercing provision and the emerging corporate interest orientation theory, shifts liability from subjective abuse of control to the objective status of benefit attribution. Although the two jurisdictions follow different institutional paths both demonstrate a convergent objective turn in liability logic. This convergence offers complementary insights: Germany's model emphasizes prevention through ex ante obligations, while China's model focuses on remediation through ex post interest tracing, together providing a richer framework for global MNE accountability.

The breakthrough development of artificial intelligence technology is driving a fundamental transition of human civilization from industrial to digital-intelligent form, while neoliberalism has formed a deep coupling with digital technology, generating unique political discourse practices in the Asian context and posing fundamental challenges to traditional anthropological understandings of civilizational diversity. From an anthropological perspective, this paper combines neoliberalism and digital age value restructuring, focuses on Asian digital political discourse construction, and explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology drives the evolution of human civilizational forms. This paper systematically unpacks the three-dimensional value restructuring mechanism spanning labor processes, subjective identity, and public value formed by neoliberalism and digital technology, reveals the localized construction and power games of Asian AI political discourse, and reflects on inherent cultural power inequality in this process. This study supplements empirical analysis of neoliberalism's localized restructuring in AI-era Asia, expands anthropology's critical horizon on digital technology and civilizational diversity, and provides academic reference for defending Asian digital development autonomy.

The TRIPS Agreement incorporates copyright into the multilateral trading system and realizes the commercialization of copyright through the WTO Single Undertaking, minimum standards of protection and cross-retaliation mechanisms. However, this system faces the structural dilemma in the digital platform era: the normative presuppositions based on tangible carriers are difficult to apply to online communication models such as streaming media, and strict rights restrictions have compressed the institutional space for member states in public policy areas such as cultural diversity and fair use. The public value of cultural products has been marginalized, and developing countries are facing regulatory mismatches and regulatory chilling. In the face of the stagnation of multilateral treaties, this article advocates seeking rebalancing within the existing framework of TRIPS through the reconstruction of interpretative principles: activating the objective and principal provisions such as Article 7 and Article 8, and reserving necessary institutional experimental leeway and compliance flexibility for cultural policies in the digital age in the three dimensions of transparency, balance of interests, and territoriality.

This study looks at how smart elderly care affects older adults' care choices, we use panel data from four waves of the China Longitudinal Study of Aging, covering 2014 to 2020, we treat the rollout of smart elderly care demonstration zones as a quasiexperiment, then apply a multiperiod differenceindifferences model for our empirical analysis, a few findings stand out, results show smart elderly care has a clear positive impact on older adults' care choices, this holds up across a series of robustness checks, the influence works through three channels, it reduces information search costs, that eases information frictions between supply and demand, it helps maintain cognitive abilities, which strengthens the ability to compare and evaluate different care options, it also expands social networks, which shifts how people think about care choices, this study pushes the theoretical boundaries of care decisionmaking from an institutional embeddedness perspective, it offers empirical evidence to help finetune smart elderly care policies and agefriendly improvements, and it speaks to a realworld tension, where policy shows strong enthusiasm but the market remains lukewarm.

To explore the practical application of anchored instruction in the Chinese educational context, this study carefully selected four classes (including two classes of Grade 1 and two classes of Grade 4) from a public primary school and three experienced frontline mathematics teachers in a first-tier coastal city of China as research participants, and systematically investigated the current situation and specific implementation details of the localized practice of this teaching model in primary school mathematics classrooms. The results demonstrated that anchored instruction has undergone certain adaptive transformation to adapt to the local teaching scenarios and students' learning characteristics. This adaptive transformation not only effectively alleviates teachers' daily teaching burden and reduces their work pressure, but also significantly improves students' classroom attention and participation, and further enhances the overall effectiveness and quality of classroom teaching. In future research, it is necessary to expand the sample size to include more primary schools in different regions and increase the number of research participants, and extend the research cycle to further verify the long-term effectiveness and wide applicability of anchored instruction in the Chinese educational context and provide more reliable and comprehensive research support.

In the digital era, standard clauses in online platform user service agreements serve as a core instrument defining the rights and obligations between platforms and users. While such clauses improve contracting efficiency, they have also given rise to malpractices including forced authorization, triggering numerous civil disputes and seriously infringing upon users' legitimate rights and interests. In judicial practice, the absence of clear typified guidelines for similar disputes has led to inconsistent adjudication criteria and divergent judgments in analogous cases.Against this dilemma, a typological research approach should be adopted. Based on key judicial controversies, standard clauses can be categorized into four core types: dispute resolution, personal information processing, agreement modification, and rights restriction. This paper analyzes problems inherent in each type, such as insufficient reminder and explanation, manifest unfairness of content, and inconsistent standards for validity determination. It further proposes refining platforms' rules of reminder and public disclosure, tightening restrictions on the scope of clause contents, and unifying judicial review standards, so as to lay a solid legal foundation for the sound development of the digital economy.

Trace management was originally formulated as a practical and vital tool for promoting the modernization of national governance. It was intended to standardize daily operations, strengthen process supervision, and ensure the full implementation of policies in grassroots governance. However, in long-term practical operation, it has gradually strayed from its original purpose and evolved into trace-oriented formalism, a typical bureaucratic tendency that values documentary traces over real governance performance. From the analytical perspective of rational choice institutionalism, trace-oriented formalism is never the result of individual dereliction or passive work attitude of grassroots actors. Instead, it is a strategic rational choice made by grassroots actors under multiple institutional constraints, including the serious imbalance between power and responsibility, the biased orientation of performance assessment, the constraints of the pressure-driven system, and the disordered application of digital technology in governance. This study finds that the rectification of trace-oriented formalism should focus on optimizing institutional structure and reshaping incentive and restraint mechanisms. By correcting the risk-averse rational choices of grassroots actors, transforming their behavioral motivations and work expectations, we can guide them to shift their focus from formal record‑keeping to substantive governance, so as to realize the organic unity of individual rationality and collective rationality and continuously improve the efficiency and credibility of grassroots governance.

International cooperation in anti-corruption and fugitive pursuit is a crucial part of cross-border corruption governance, and it should be based on the integration of domestic law and international law.China has formed a cooperation framework supported by the Criminal Law, the Criminal Procedure Law and special norms and supported by multilateral and bilateral treaties, and formed multiple paths such as extradition, repatriation, prosecution in other places and persuasion to return, which has made positive achievements in the "skynet operation". However, in practice, it is still restricted by the rules of non-extradition of the death penalty, the difference in the determination of dual crimes, and the non-extradition of its nationals. It also faces problems such as the long-term jurisdiction of some countries, the absence of asset sharing mechanisms and the insufficient awareness of international rules by local case-handling organs. To this end, we should optimize the domestic legal system, standardize the sentencing commitment procedures, strengthen the construction of anti-money laundering mechanisms, improve diversified cooperation routes and standardized judicial assistance mechanisms, and ensure the long-term effectiveness of the recovery of fugitives and stolen goods by improving the system.

The current crime record sealing system in China is no longer adequate for the governance of minor crimes. Specifically, the system is limited in its scope of application, paying insufficient attention to adult offenders of minor offences; in terms of the criteria for sealing records, the current system relies solely on the severity of the sentence, neglecting an assessment of the nature of the offence; during implementation, a lack of coordination between relevant functional departments, coupled with inadequate technical capabilities, has resulted limited effectiveness in practice. To address these issues, the scope of the criminal record sealing scheme should be expanded to include eligible adult offenders; dual criteria—sentence length and nature of the offence—should be adopted to determine eligibility, adding the subjective factors into account; and operational coordination between relevant departments, should be strengthened. By these ways, the criminal record sealing system will more effectively facilitate the reintegration of offenders into society and their return to normal life.

The evidence in telecommunications and online fraud cases is increasingly going overseas in terms of quantification and dispersion, and the traditional model of evidence collection is difficult to meet the needs of judicial practice. Sampling evidence, with its efficiency, has become an important way to solve the problem of obtaining evidence in such cases, but it has encountered multiple practical obstacles: improper evidence collection procedures, formalistic cross-examination, and the absence of evidence review rules seriously restrict the actual effectiveness of sampling evidence. In view of this, a standardized sampling operation process should be established, an equal cross-examination mechanism between the prosecution and the defense should be improved, and hierarchical evidence certification rules should be established, with the aim of promoting the standardization of the application of sampling evidence and providing theoretical references for the precise determination and fair adjudication of such cases.