

The bad guys already have an infinite propaganda points glitch in the fact that the West nurtures racism and ignorance and there’s really nothing China can do about it.
I don’t think its that pointless since it further emphasizes that foreigners are not exempt from respecting Chinese law and that China’s sovereignty is still of great concern to the ruling party.
Chinese celebrities AFAIK are also scrutinized in the same way so it would be unfair for a USAmerican entertainer to get a free pass (even unintentional).
I’d argue the apology could have been just a memo/text post online. But John Cena really wanted to show off his Mandarin skills (chad energy).
They’re still doing John Xina and Mao Zedong edits of him to this day. Hell even social credit is still being spammed.
Reddit will go down as the single greatest consent manufacturing effort in human history atp.