FT Chinese has the authorization to translate and publish this article from ECNU Review of Education.
During the COVID-19 crisis, the global pandemic brings extensive discussions on globalization and deglobalization. Within the hyper-connected world, the virus knows no lines and boundaries and spreads across the population with different nationalities, races/ethnicities, genders, social classes, ages, and religions. The world population is connected and faces the same problem. The virus requires social distancing, and nations take future precautions to close borders and focus on national security. National interest comes as the priority, countries like the U.S. are hyping moving manufactures back, and protectionism and xenophobia are around the corner. With this mixture of globalization and nationalism, it is unclear how globalization will look after the pandemic. This commentary intends to discuss how education and students should prepare for the evolving glo- balization and challenges of deglobalization. Specifically, this commentary seeks to examine the cross-cultural experience of a highly mobile group within the trend of Chinese student population studying in foreign countries and deliberate how global competence should be constructed within this group to prepare for the changing world after COVID-19.
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