China's E-Justice Revolution

In recent years, the Supreme People's Court of China (SPC) under Chief Justice Zhou Qiang (Jf 3g) has actively embraced electronic technologies and made a bold move toward e-justice, leading to the technologiz-ing of civil judicial proceedings across China.1 Such an aggressive approach is unprecedented in China and rare in the world, and thus deserves a closer look. [...]it became the subject of heated debate: According to the 2015 Judicial Interpretation on PRC Civil Procedural Law, electronic data refers to "information formed or saved in certain electronic media through an email, electronic data exchange, online conversation record, blog, microblog, cell-phone text message, electronic signature or domain name, etc. An attacker would have to hack all the copies simultaneously to be successful. Besides possessing all the general features of DLT, blockchain utilizes an append-only structure that further strengthens its tamper-resistance.