I think people have become increasingly immune to PboC announcements and interventions as they have become common and sort of obvious, and each time making the Chinese market less relevant,
PBOC is almost Auto Goxing what could be one of their biggest economic drivers, given their well educated population, and provide them another way out of US denominated debt.
[This is to you Head of PBOC, I know you department has people reading this.]
Now that Japan has legalized BTC, it really takes the wind out of the sales out of the "its not legal" anywhere argument and actually interlocks with local legislation a little. For example some local legislation may allow currencies to be considered legal if another country recognizes that.
Well once we realized that the Chinese real market volume was much lower than it really seemed to be then its impact was also reduced.
Instituting the minimum trading fee gave a hint to how much the real volume China has in relative terms to total bitcoin trading.
Apparently 8% but I question that number. Somewhere between 15-20% Seems more accurate
https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/30d?c=e&t=bhttps://cointelegraph.com/news/no-direct-correlation-between-chinese-yuan-bitcoin-price-heres-whyUntil late 2016, the Chinese Bitcoin exchange market was believed to process around 95 percent of global trading. However, the enforced trading fees unraveled the true volume of Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, which currently only account for eight percent of the global Bitcoin exchange market.
With eight percent of the global Bitcoin trading volume, it seemed unlikely that a factor which affects the Chinese market would impact the global Bitcoin exchange market and ultimately, Bitcoin price.