Well, I think this is a sense of fear and resistance to change at a global level.. Nothing surprising, history tells us that we are never too good with a massive change, specially if we have stakes to lose! I heard similar news in my country, Pakistan, where our so-called democratic government is trying to discourage bitcoin activities and transactions by false accusations of fraud and tax evasion and imposing senseless regulations.

I think this uncertainty among the big guns worldwide proves the decentralized system is what we're heading towards, finally! :)