http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/06/26/china-stock-swoon-could-signal-end-of-bull-run/Here's something to think about --
What if the Chinese government does this:1) Pops the Bitcoin bubble in 2013 with bogus reports of a bitcoin 'ban'
2) From the Bitcoin mania, sees that their own Chinese 'Average Joes' have loads of savings to invest, and will even go long on margin (i.e., get into debt)
3) Engineer a Chinese stock bull run
4) Promote the stock bull run domestically, even providing easy borrowing for more margin leverage
5) Get all of the Chinese Average Joes to go all in at the peak of the bubble (like a month ago)
6) Pop the Chinese stock bubble
7) Short the deflating market - Profit!
Now all those Chinese Average Joes that were late to the party just got burned and are heavily underwater and in more debt. And they'll probably continue to double-down (average down) on more Chinese stock shares as their stock bubble deflates. Which means being more underwater.
At this point, they then will have nothing left to even invest in Bitcoin. And that's the way the Chinese government wants it. They just bailed-in their own slowing economy by going majorly in debt.