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The wide circulation of cultural products from different regions makes the global culture more diversified and forms a common world. Understanding and respecting each other's values, living habits and traditional customs in the interaction between different cultural systems. Different countries have established their own unique cultural values, and the world has taken on a multi-cultural pattern. As the restrictions of geographical barriers on cultural activities continue to decrease, transnational cultural contact increases, accelerating the spread of culture. With the increasing popularity of the Internet, people around the world can receive and publish information through the Internet for two-way communication. People from all over the world can also export their culture more easily and conveniently through the Internet platform.  For instance，South Korea's K-pop culture began to be exported in mid-2000. It has become popular not only in Asia, but also in Europe, The United States and the world. In 2012, south Korean singer PSY's song "Gangnam Style" became the most viewed video ever on Youtube. Thanks to the Internet, his horse-riding dance has become a global hit, and has also brought k-pop culture to more people around the world. The song was ranked 12th on the Billboard 100 Greatest music Videos of the 21st Century in 2018. However, with the enhancement of the comprehensive national strength of Asian countries, the current direction of cultural communication is not only one-way from the West, but two-way mutual influence. For example, the Spring Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is highly regarded in western countries. More and more non-Chinese people in Europe and the United States also participate in the Lunar New Year celebrations.

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It has been more than two years since COVID-19 was first detected in late 2019, and over 700 days and nights have brought untold suffering and disaster to humanity. The pandemic has disrupted the established order and speed of globalization, and even to some extent, the optimism and expectation of mankind for the world has been shattered by the sudden arrival of COVID-19. In addition, anti-globalization and anti-globalization are surging in the world. As Fukuyama declared the end of history, the so-called elites of the mainstream Western society are constantly declaring the end of globalization and the COVID-19 has put an end to the process of globalization. Affected by the force majeure of the epidemic, countries have taken strict control measures to cancel a large number of cultural and sports activities; restrict the operation of public places such as shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, and movie theaters, and the serious contraction of commercial activities will further reduce people's consumption demand. American Airlines has said it will cut 75 percent of global flights to cope with a shortage of demand. The economic downturn caused by the epidemic has had a profound impact on businesses and employment. Around the world, enterprises, particularly micro and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, are under enormous pressure, with more than half of them in arrears or on the verge of falling into arrears. To understand the pressures of the pandemic on business performance and the adjustments that companies must make, the World Bank and partner institutions have partnered with borrowing governments on a rapid COVID-19 business pulse.

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In the early morning of February 24, 2022, Russian troops invaded Ukraine☠️.After that the price of crude oil has now risen to $120 a barrel due to tensions between Russia and Ukraine.Because the price of crude oil rises, the price of the goods we need to live also rises, the raw materials for the fiber needed to make clothes come from crude oil, which is what we call oil, the price of crude oil rises to create a rise in travel prices, people's willingness to travel decreases, the cost of living rises, everything is rising except for our wages☹️. The expansion of the war will have three evil consequences: First, it will have a serious negative impact on the global supply chain. The second is to consume more global wealth without generating increments. Third, eliminate some of the productive forces. These three evil consequences directly affect the stability of the global economic cycle. On February 27, Canada announced that it would close its airspace to all Russian aircraft with immediate effect. This will affect many airlines to be cancelled. The peer-to-peer airspace ban will result in airlines flying longer and may require crew changes on Asian routes on the East Coast. This can add a lot of costs to the operation of certain flights. While Aeroflot does not have any direct flights to Canada, several flights do pass through Canadian airspace to the United States and other destinations. The price of the airline tickets will keep increasing, many overseas students will also be influenced. All in all, Once the conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalates, it will inevitably have a serious and far-reaching impact on the global economy and financial markets. Because the current era has long been the era of global integration and development, no country can be independent of it, so the impact of modern war cannot be isolated, especially for the two sides participating in the war, in addition to casualties and damage to homes, economic losses will be immeasurable.

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As a form of modern cultural consumption, film undertakes the function of cultural dissemination. In the context of globalization, the values conveyed by the collision and dialogue of Chinese and Western cultures, the meaning of the integration of Chinese and Western cultures are worth exploring, the dissemination and inheritance of national culture should be through effective communication media, and the development of the film and television industry must be integrated into the core of national culture in order to win resonance among the audience and be based on the long term. "Kung Fu Panda " is a successful work in integrating Chinese and Western cultures and cross-cultural communication.It uses a lot of Chinese elements and also makes a propaganda for China. The "Kung Fu Panda" series of films has done this, and its films use a large number of Chinese elements, which is not just in response to the phenomenon that Chinese culture has responded well in the international community in recent years? Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Food, Chinese Architecture, etc. have received warm international welcome in recent years.But its main idea is individual heroism in American culture. Drawing on the excellence of other cultures, maintaining the local culture, and adding to the excellent spirit of modern society, further interpretation is also an important factor in the vigorous development of cultural and creative industries. However，each coin has two sides, the Cultural globalization has both advantage and disadvantage.