AHA! A little demo of power!

In those accursed years of Mao-ist poverty, China was nothing on the stage of world economic power.
Today, with a little flip of its pen, this happens:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/12/bitcoin-value-dives-after-china-banks-ban-2013125141919464366.html. 

So, welcome to this new opera on the world stage.