Actually, there was a bit more to Tomorrow’s conspiracy than that—
He’d stolen a nuke from the British ship he’d sunk, after making both sides think the other one had attacked them. Afterwards, during the U.K./Chinese naval confrontation that followed, he was going to launch it at Beijing from a stealth ship, again making it look like it was a British commander who’d done it, which would decapitate the Chinese leadership…and giving his accomplice, a Chinese general who’d then be next-in-line to take over, the opportunity to seize power. In exchange, after the “war” was quickly ended, Carver’s company would get exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next century.
Which, I guess, just boils down to selling a hell of a lot of newspapers. 