China is not influential i think. Its peoples fear that is affecting bitcoin.
Slightly you were right but as I can see from the recent news and even some would even say that in China, there are so many people that are using bitcoin, or should we say they are mostly investors and that news took a great deal at the bitcoin's price which is the reason why it goes down for a bit, but it will rise again.
Yes, china has the most investors of bitcoins and also it influences the price because of panic. The recent rumor made a great effect on the price of bitcoin about china banning bitcoins, but in reality i dont think it would happen because most of the miners and investors are from china. China is a independent country and we cant predict the future of bitcoin either.
But as the population is much higher there, people fear about the bitcoin markets falling and in panic they sell off their bitcoins leading to the price fall of bitcoins. But surely bitcoin will again rise as bitcoin has previously faced many such situations and now is strong enough.