It might be true because their activities related to bitcoin were always suspicious.News related to china was earlier mostly used by FUD spreaders mostly to create panic among newbies and make them sell their coins.But now its no more possible.Now even FUD spreaders hardly search other factors to create panic in the market.Now at current stage,news about south korea has an impact on crypto prices.China does not hold any crypto coins and actually they are not in need of it.

China is a big player in the Crypto world and it can manipulate the market in such a way, we could see now! But the last manipulation cost China a lot, because of the movement of some big investors abroad. So I hope this ban will cost them even more.   

It's just recent history repeating. Time and time again we see announcements regarding bans/regulation etc, it's a no brainer that there will be officials cashing in on such FUD. Of course, there can be a progressive and cumulative effect of these announcements.

I've had a bear attitude since Gox, and crypto has surprised me over and over again with the rise of the last 12 months.

china has been playing this game for a long time now, every once in a while saying that they ban bitcoin or something like that. and it works every time.

Maybe more of a mass cash out because of the news. China is good at manipulating the price of Bitcoin and we already saw that back then and we saw that Bitcoin bounced back and recovered from that bloody plunge. We should be hopeful on times like this, we have been on the same page every year, panicking on something that we all know Bitcoin will get through, we just need to wait.

I think this could happen.
China is the economic, financial and military power.
They can manipulate the market and make it turn around.
The ban is limited. I hope the ban better.

No one can deny that this is happening, but no one can prove it either. I am personally of the belief that Bitcoin is currently far too small for a country as big as China to bother with. What's clear is while they could have been contributing to dips with all their internal FUD, they never put out news that may help Bitcoin's value rise. If they're truly manipulating Bitcoin for their own gain, then it would make more sense for them to go both ways, no? Either way, this is all conjecture at this point, and I could be completely wrong.

Also, I don't think this recent slide was caused by China. The market was largely lukewarm towards news about their mining restrictions, with some even thinking that it would be good for Bitcoin in the long run. This is probably just normal market correction, given that Bitcoin grew by more than 100% in less than two months.

I agree with you. the main puppeteer is china. I think anyway eventually china will rejoin it with crypto. this is a big loss for the country and the people of china.

It is very clear that there is a manipulation from some where. It is now left for people that are wise to hold their peace because I know that
 no government or individual can kill bitcoin or blockchain technology.