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.