Every year will probably be a year of someone or something, previously, John Mcfee that claims himself to be Satoshi and always like that.
And now, Elon with his very influencing tweets. CHina with its FUD. and also the US.
It has to do with Elon's baseless tweet though, it's controversial that it shake up the market real bad in the last month or so.
For the Chinese news, they've always like to do with when Bitcoin is on the bull run, so we should get used to it. I don't know if there is a Chinese story line, but as far as I know, their government has been anti-Bitcoin since 2017. And now they are putting a clamp on their bitcoin miners. And the only loser is not the market, but those huge and mid mining pools who have been supporting Bitcoin (and making huge profits) ever since. Thus, this is what the government wanted to stop and control.