Bitcoin has pumped back to $4000 and up, without no chinese markets involved, proving that we can survive government bans. I am very confident now in a strong recovery to an ATH. Once we reach ATH in a post-Chinese ban environment, we are going to prove to the world that bans on Bitcoin are useless, so they will either join us or keep getting exposed.
I predict chinese exchanges will eventually be back under regulated licenses, pumping the price even further. Get in now or cry later.
There is no way to completely remove the Chinese from the scheme of things and saying that bitcoin is growing without the Chinese market will not be totally true because the market alone does not go around the exchange sites which the search light on at this time. But dont also forget the impact of the mining centers available and they either make bitcoin available and even transactions confirms which means without them, there wont be any market after all.
I quite agree with the tighter exchange sites coming back because I dont see any sane country who have dominance in a currency of the future throwing it away just like because they could not control it and another country is ready take charge and dominate. So, they are coming back and this time, the price might reach unimaginable height.