As sboselli points out below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15285900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15285900), money doesn't even need to leave the

As sboselli points out below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15285900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15285900), money doesn't even need to leave the country. Just the fact alone that a Chinese citizen is buying foreign currency or Bitcoin in a black market constitutes a form of capital flight.