As the narrative carrier of major events,news images play an important role in promoting the global communication of international issues.Aiming at the refugee issue,which is the direct consequence of the global crisis,the visual frame extraction,character emotion recognition and communication network analy-sis of 474786 refugee images from 198 countries shows that the visual presentation of global refugee news im-ages has the characteristics of symbol deviation,emotional opposition and narrative contradiction.This visual discourse conflict is affected by contextual factors such as national economy,politics,religion and culture;the global media presents refugee image sharing on the strong linkage effect has formed a significant circle struc-ture and media community.As a result,the nature of international issues provides the conditions for the scene-based image production.The contextual factors within a country are the main clues to its image produc-tion strategy,and the international power is the underlying logic for building a global visual communication ecology.