China has always played with bans like this and this is a repeat, I totally agree. but they have estimated the pros and cons of the ban. as a big country that is indeed mining very much there, of course it is very well calculated what it has done. the goal is clearly to seek profit which we cannot know at this time but in the future it will be seen that what China is doing is aimed at its interests.
Indeed, this is not the first time this has happened. But it seems to me that this is the first time when everything is so serious.