What's really amazing is that they don't understand that they are cutting themselves out from a super-growing market, letting all major investor taking all their money to other countries (like the mining exodus happened recently).
Should we really expect a bear market?
In all honesty your opinion, my opinion or the general perception of the world on China is totally irrelevant to the leadership their. Their decisions are made with the aim of making China the biggest economic power in the world, albeit they will definitely try to "stage manage" the appearance during that rise. When it comes to Bitcoin, it is barely a blip on their radar and is totally irrelevant to the long term aims of the country to the elites sitting at the very top of government. It is easy to forget, since they utilized capitalism in order to rise, that they are still a heavily authoritarian - almost dictatorial now Xi Jinping is in charge - form of government. Everyone in the upper circles who make and break laws is already sitting in a wealth bubble, they don't want people in the system below them running away with money outside the banking system.