Ironic that Bobby Lee calls the Americans imperialistic given that BitCoin wasn't invented in China, but Chinese firms have clearly taken control.
He doesn't:
He said the American companies failed to understand the power dynamics in the room that day. “It was almost like imperialistic Westerners coming to China and telling us what to do,”
almost like
And as the article states Chinese firms are hardly a hive-mind. But even if they were, "taking control" by virtue of mining the most coins is a feature, not a bug. And not "imperialistic."