create an impression China is going "nationalistic" which can be easily spinned by the West into China will attack Taiwan, will put a military base in the Solomons, will take over the South China Sea, will continue to "genocide" Uighurs, will populate Tibet with Hans, will debt slave Africans, will continue to supress Chinese people and organ harvest them.  It achieves nothing at all.  Soft power is the best multiplier.  For one RMB of GDP with soft power it is times 20.