They print USD. And perhaps buying methamphetamine -base-products from China or whereever is more plausably deniable or less WONG or whatever than f around with chinese bills. Whatever they do, they're doing all kinds of shit. And they print USD, or has, and, everything else they do isn't really great, all the time. They counterfeit USD and probably tons of other shit. All the 'coinage' in paper-form from everywhere around the country or the world probably, bar the 3d and biometric and advanced shit probably. It's all shit over there man. In terms of the governance, governing, it's not good!

The point is that yes, an authoritarian government can definitely just shut down bitcoin, so authoritarian government resistance is not a feature of bitcoin.