The concept of "an interest of a legal nature" stipulated in Article 62 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice has, through long-term judicial practice, undergone a transformation from a result-oriented approach to one increasingly attentive to judicial reasoning and procedure. In the Indonesia v. Malaysia case, the intervention application submitted by the Philippines, for the first time, treated the interpretative impact of the Court's reasoning as a claimed legal interest, thereby revealing both the judicial value and the practical difficulties of "reasoning-related interests." Focusing on this case, the present article compares the distinguishing logic between direct interests and reasoning-related interests, analyzes the International Court of Justice's review approach concerning "legal identifiability," "the impact of judicial reasoning," and "procedural appropriateness," and argues that although the Court did not deny the existence of reasoning-related interests, it maintained institutional stability and judicial restraint through a stringent standard of proof. In light of China's practice, this article further explores the implications and challenges posed by such judicial logic for China's participation in international adjudication. Understanding and utilizing the concept of "reasoning-related interests" may assist China in securing a more proactive position within the interpretative framework of international law.

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Against the backdrop of the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), cross-border intellectual property (IP) disputes have emerged as a critical obstacle hindering Chinese enterprises' overseas expansion. Based on official reports, academic research findings, and typical practical cases, this paper systematically sorts out the three-dimensional legal framework for cross-border IP dispute resolution under the BRI, analyzes the core dilemmas faced by Chinese enterprises—including jurisdictional conflicts, enforcement barriers, and procedural cost predicaments—and conducts a comparative analysis of three mainstream dispute resolution paths. Furthermore, it puts forward scenario-based selection criteria, national-level system improvement proposals, and enterprise-level compliance strategies. The research indicates that scientific path selection must adhere to the principle of "scenario-based matching and dynamic adjustment", and the improvement of the dispute resolution system requires the joint efforts of all relevant parties to effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.

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The Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF) provides a classical lens for understanding how risk information is amplified or attenuated and its social consequences. This paper reviews SARF's theoretical and empirical foundations, integrating individual-level factors (trust, media, risk attributes) with cultural and political perspectives on social structures and interest-driven contestation. It identifies a bias toward amplification over attenuation, and underscores media and trust as central: media shape perceptions via framing, trust moderates reception and dissemination as an implicit "valve". Yet existing research remains confined to single events or platforms, lacking systematic inquiry into the interplay between amplification and attenuation, multi-actor coordination, and trust fluidity across evolving media ecologies, and rarely treats the public as active participants. In response, we propose four future directions:public-actor perspective, comparative analysis of amplification and attenuation, multi-actor ecology, and longitudinal designs to move risk communication toward a more contextualized and comparative paradigm, offering insights for digital risk governance.

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With globalization and digital media development, Western TV comedies have gained increasing popularity among Chinese young audiences despite significant cultural differences. This study examines Chinese audiences' cross-cultural reception of Western TV comedy and explores gender-based differences in text interpretation. Taking the BBC Irish comedyThe Young Offendersas a case study, this research adopts a focus group approach with 26 Chinese participants (13 male, 13 female). Drawing on humor theories and Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding theory, the study analyzes participants' interpretation patterns of humorous elements. Findings reveal that Chinese audiences clearly prefer non-verbal (visual) humor over verbal humor in cross-cultural comedic reception. Gender differences are evident: male audiences tend to adopt dominant-hegemonic decoding positions, while female audiences demonstrate confrontational positions. This study highlights the role of visual humor in facilitating cross-cultural comedy communication and demonstrates that viewing experience and cultural background shape audiences' interpretive patterns, providing insights for cross-cultural media production and dissemination.

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