If it supports your use case, sure. But splitting down the Pacific doesn't distort China and the rest of East Asia nearly as much as splitting down the Atlantic distorts South America and Africa, because Asia is much further from any reasonable dividing line than South America is.

And splitting through mainland Europe and Africa would only compound the problem, since it would put all of that distortion right down the middle of two very populous continents. If you're in a use case where a distortion that big is immaterial, it probably doesn't matter much where you split the map; you can probably just center the map over whichever country or region you're trying to focus the map on, and not even bother showing the other hemisphere.