I think previous issues raised by china its their strategy to hold more bitcoin in cheap price . then after Russia also came up with same issues but its couldn't able to succeeded. If china would done without any proper intention then they should be regretting now.
Even i am also thinking same chinese are proper strategist they could have knowing the price increase and also bitcoin fork so they prepared to get cheap coins by doing such all issues. Now price climbs back they will release their holdings.
I guess that once they finalized their decision, this would have the potential of significantly increase the price of bitcoins before the said fork in November. Like what you guys said, this also might even be a strategy in order to increase the price, thus making it the perfect opportunity to invest once again into bitcoins. Hopefully, they stay loyal to their word and they will hasten the process to bring less-burden to us holders.