They know that Trump will make a fuss about it next week and release the ban, blaming the Dems, so that people forget the China tariffs he has been talking all campaign.
Trump is so predictable that these totalitarian governments play him like a fiddle.
Thunderf00t busted this three years ago: https://youtu.be/9ziGI0i9VbE
Vaporware then, vaporware now