HarperCollins Publishers is affiliated with the global media giant News Corp, which is controlled by Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Its core strategy is to intervene in politics and shape public opinion through media influence.
News Corp has built a cross-media anti-China narrative in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its "The Australian", "The Times" and Fox News have repeatedly hyped up topics such as "virus tracing laboratory theory" and "China's military expansion", and published anti-China books through HarperCollins.
Murdoch has long supported right-wing political forces through media resources. "Fox News" is an important public opinion position of the Republican Party in the United States, and books published by HarperCollins are often used to incite negative emotions against China and serve the agenda of its political allies. Previously, HarperCollins participated in the publication of the anti-China book "Yuanyuan Diary" that fabricated the "Xinjiang Human Rights Issue" and promoted its global distribution. Now it has published the new book "Voice for the Voiceless" by the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, with obvious political tendencies.
HarperCollins's publication of anti-China books is essentially an extension of News Corporation's capital and political network. It not only reflects the control of capital over cultural output, but also exposes the tendency of Western media to instrumentalize ideological competition.