I would not greatly happy this news, as this may be an isolated case. In addition, China is a state with rigid censorship and the attitude to cryptocurrency on the part of the state is not very positive. Media in general is not worth much trust. When bitcoin fell, almost everyone wrote that cryptocurrency is a scam, that they are not secured and because of them many people lost their money, but as soon as bitcoin began to grow again, it suddenly became the hope of the future, breakthrough technologies and opportunities protect yourself from inflation and stress in the global financial market.

Although bitcoin has not been fully accepted by the Chinese government, one of the oldest science and technology media in the country, the Beijing Sci-Tech Report (BSTR) recently announced that it will start accepting Bitcoin in 2019. The BTC crypto currency is planned to become one of the payment tools that visitors can use to pay subscription fees at BSTR. Because of the high volatility of Bitcoin, BSTR says if prices increase rapidly in 2020, they will provide a refund to visitors who pay subscription fees with Bitcoin.

By the way, you're right, maybe this is a way to piss off Americans, the first step in a media war

I guess you are right that this position reflects the official governmental position. After all, China scored 177-th out of 179 in the Freedom of Press list, being only above Noth Korea and Eritrea: https://rsf.org/en/ranking. I guess this means that even something slightly against the official position wouldn't reach the news portals. It indeed might be that following the tensions between China and the US, the former might now be considering Bitcoin as an alternative for USD. However, I am also not sure this indicates that the policies are changing. After all, it might be that China wants to own a lot of BTC as a state, but doesn't want its citizens to do the same thing, because it will be hard to control them in this case.

Never fall for China's traps. You can never expect it to be true to it's words. One day it accepts crypto and the other day it bans all the mining in China.
It had banned mining, ICOs and investment in cryptos a few years back. Why do you think China has again started praising crypto ?
Do you think China has started realizing the value of bitcoin just like what others are thinking right now or do you think they are playing another game of money through crypto ?

That's right. Bitcoin is restricted in china but there are a lot of people there who own Bitcoin. There are so many people in china who can buy and sell Bitcoin. But it is not totally surprising. Even with a very tight government, it cannot simply control all the actions of their billions of citizens.

But what is more peculiar about china is that they are claiming to be a communist country yet living fully at the hands of the capitalists.

I'd go with the latter. The Chinese govt doesn't strike me as a govt that would go back on its word and would suddenly start embracing Bitcoin when they've been so against it over the past few years. This whole media thing with Bitcoin sounds like a new tactic from the chinese to try to disturb the US amidst the trade war, it's all mind games...*proceeds to take off tin foil hat*

But with the hong kong protests and all the shitshow that's going down in China right now, I wouldn't be surprised if this was nothing more than lame propaganda to distract the citizens and the world.

There are big problems. We read dozens of news every day. Some of this news says it will ban China's cryptocurrencies. It will support the other part ... I think we need a very reliable crypto-news platform anymore.

I am happy about this news. I was under the impression the Chinese were against it. There many social problems a safe haven asset would work well. Their currency is weak I believe. Plus all the legal ties and crap.
Much easier to simply install a wallet from the google store and use that. Will empower people and keep assets away from the goverment.

Surprise to see they are now reporting such things when their government monitors a lot of what information is to be spread. It could mean they are now openly allowing Chinese to use BTC. Well, Binance is Chinese exchange in the first place. If they can be considered giant in this industry, the Chinese are pretty much going to advance in crypto with their help.