Recently I read an article on Cointelegraph with the exact same points

There has been a recent spike in articles and threads on this forum related to bitcoin ban, thanks to all the FUD. The last time a country banned bitcoin was in September 2014, nothing after that. At a time when a few countries have already legalized bitcoin and a few other are working on the legal framework to regulate bitcoin, I don't know why a rumor that the Chinese government banning bitcoin is being compared to all the governments banning bitcoin?

Nothing is stopping governments from banning bitcoin, but if a decentralized currency can be indirectly regulated then that is the better option than banning it and that's what some countries did and are planning to do.