In general, the Chinese government is not comfortable with Bitcoin as it indeed representing a different currency that they can not control with. since Bitcoin is decentralized it would be hard for the government to make interventions and so they are thinking that maybe it is time to ban it altogether. The government can not kill Bitcoin but what they are doing is actually closing the country as a market for Bitcoin.
So the question is: Can Bitcoin survive without China? In case, it can't then then there is something wrong with it since it is not resilient to ride the big storm it is in.
Clearly, bitcoin can survive without china. That is a known fact. Yes, china may have a very huge population which are mostly crypto currency lovers. They may have cheaper everything else that makes doing crypto easier, but you also have to consider that china is not the whole world. Chinese people are nothing but a fraction of all the people who love crypto currencies. Losing them won’t kill bitcoin. It may cause damage but not as much as what you think it would. And probably even make bitcoin better.