China likes to make things easy on their own startups. Everyone should know that by now. If Uber has not made arrangements and structured the administration and ownership of their China business in a fashion consistent with that reality... I have to question the suitability of the leadership team at Uber.
This is all basic stuff at this point. China is not a mystery anymore. You shouldn't be getting the basic stuff wrong.
Even if Uber had greased the right palms before, they're still a foreign owned country and at an inherent disadvantage in China. I expect them to be pushed out the same way they were pushed out of Paris in the near future.
Because that's what's going to happen, unless Uber has some well-positioned backers from China