Same shit China does so there's no unity and no one rebels but THAT level isn't going to work here since we were never a Imperial dynasty or a 1 party country so they're creating meat shields and potential guerillas to destabilize places that will be problematic. Seems they WANT a civil war and are trying to divide so that there's friendly-ish elements in unfriendly area's so they can have spies and murder mobs do their thing to split any (para)military focus to make it easier to squish them with a multi front fight.