Every 2 frigging weeks china is banning bitcoin..
If they were honestly even considering it they would be shutting down the ASIC manufacturers first and not repeatedly bringing it up.
Bitcoin is so revolutionary that it is of strategic importance. China can't stop ASIC manufacturing without the support of the USA, Russia, Great Britain and France.
The reason is that if all not the
super-powers are in agreement over how Bitcoin should be treated, they may spark a new arms race: this time over hash-power.