erhaps an american™ fork will appear that bans all Chinese nodes.  (If Trump is president and has a good technological advisor), that is. Bitcoin-West being the result. China then running its own fork. Oh I guess China does love Bitcoin after all # who deserves controlling the Bitcoin network? Isn't this intentional? Arms race.  Competition means more nodes being deployed.  Don't you worry folks, Bitcoin's doing just fine. Deploy more nodes if you don't like the Chinese doing it more than yourself!