Violence against children is a pressing global human rights issue, endangering children's physical and mental health and overall development. The 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development established Goal 16; yet nearly a decade later, violence, including war, sexual abuse and domestic violence remains wide spread. Urgent and more effective global action is needed. Firstly, countries should actively implement the SDGs, particularly those related to child protection and an increase in investment. Many countries have policies but need more funds for family care, violence prevention and essential services such as housing, education and healthcare to address root causes like poverty and to cut down violence. Secondly, achieving SDG 16 requires sustaining it as a systemic challenge. China has built a safety net with reporting and monitoring systems and a monitor sector collaboration for legal, medical and psychologic support. Finally, leveraging relevant framework, international monitoring and collaborative action must be stressed. Sharing successful experiences can help promote solutions and advance SDG.

Data shows that the number of Chinese children online has exceeded 193 million, and the rapid development of digital technologies such as AI has brought new risks and challenges to children's privacy. In response, China has established a relatively comprehensive legal protection system to strengthen the protection of children's privacy rights. Firstly, in terms of legislation besides general norms and privacy rights in the constitution and civil code, special protection principles for children’s personal information have been established in laws such as the Law on the Protection of Minors and the Personal Information Protection Law. Secondly, in terms of judicial protection, after conclusion of the first civil public interest mitigation case on children's network protection in 2021, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued guiding pieces on public interest litigation related to the protection of children's privacy in 2022. Finally, in terms of corporate compliance, 93% of apps in application privacy policies of China's Top ten, the two enterprises have separate privacy protection policies for children.

The persistent application of double standards in international counter-terrorism cooperation not only undermines global solidarity, but also risks normalizing political violence. Through selective moral relativism, this paradoxical situation is exemplified by certain countries’ selective condemnation of a terrorist incident, particularly evident in their politicized response to counter-terrorism efforts in China’s Xinjiang region.