The story that China were buying cause of the capital controls was just a bit of news to help the pump along. Clearly that wasn't the real reason behind the pump as there would have been a much longer sustained rally as well higher volume magnitude overall.
All the Capital control stuff is fake the Communist party does wateva they want
buying up assets with illegal bribes, the end is near Bitcoin will crush them!
Why would Bitcoin crush them... The pseudo-anonymous nature of Bitcoin gives them even more anonymity than any other method used for these
bribes at the moment. If Bitcoin were a solution to bribes in governments, they would simply ban it and that would be the end of Bitcoin in that
country. Like you said, they can do what they want... that includes banning Bitcoin.