China is the country that helped push Bitcoin up 40% in the last 7 days. Do you think so?
It may have helped push prices higher, but the recent rally was much bigger than just Chinese demand. This was pent up demand (including lots of shorts being squeezed) hitting very low supply, across the board. If you compare order books across exchanges, spot exchange supply is very low right now. Thin ask sides like we're seeing now is characteristic of any bull market.
In my opinion then with US trade - China is tense. Chinese investors are trying to drain their money to other assets like USD and Bitcoin, they think the yuan will continue to devalue. President Trump has increased taxes on China in the past 2 weeks, making the yuan 2% lower than the USD. Some people worry that China will reduce the value of Chinese currency to help cheaper Chinese goods to compete with US products despite tariffs. Therefore Hong Kong wealthy merchants are withdrawing money from China
Meanwhile, China is blocking people from selling the yuan and very strictly transferring money from the country, and Bitcoin is the only way. According to calculations by experts, 20% of Bitcoin trading volume comes from China
Chinese people are definitely using Bitcoin as a means for capital flight, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the multi-billion dollar Chinese shadow banking industry, exits to real estate, etc. The crypto market is still quite small for large capital flight. There are much better means for Chinese people to get their money out of the country.