They cannot control it like the USD, because the latter was their creation and is fiat (meant to be controlled by the government/central bank), whereas the former is a new independent form of money. The article is about a stronger KYC procedure. So the US government wants to know who uses Bitcoin in their country and thus be able to track the transaction, partially knowing the real people behind them. But it's more about Bitcoin used by the US citizens, they probably don't care about anything that does not concern their country.