You can never trust totalitarians to do what's rational. In fact, they often do the opposite. What you can count on them doing is punishing those they don't like, and never let us forget just how easy the BTC blockchain could freeze for days or weeks if for whatever reason the Chinese miners were forced to shut down ... even just temporarily. Oh, and what I was saying about totalitarians, multiple that by 100 when they are corrupted by money.