Yeah, right. It is China. Loss of face. They will find any excuse to pin it on somebody other than the person sitting in the pilot seat.
We have no evidence that this was NOT a control failure problem. In my experience Chinese pilots are taught to fly by numbers and they will fly to those numbers regardless. Should they be taught that they have to have a certain airspeed to carry out a manoeuvre they will have it.
The problem comes when something happens that is not in the script.
All in all the fact that she and the passengers survived should be applauded.