Frankly, no. The idea that East Asian people had once eaten with forks and knives, and only resorted to using chopsticks because of some oppressive government decree is pure myth, based on Orientalist stereotypes rather than history or archaeology.

Chopsticks have been in use in East Asia for more than 3,000 years. The oldest set known to modern archaeology was discovered in the ruins of Yin, last capital of the Shang dynasty, and date to approximately 1200 BC- and they were made of valuable bronze, suggesting they belonged to a member of the martial elite. Chinese textual sources of the Warring States, Qin and Han refer to chopsticks, and notably this is a period when Chinese peasants were heavily armed and no restrictions on weapons were in place. The use of chopsticks spread across East and Southeast Asia as a result of cultural and culinary influences from China- not because of paranoid governments.

Weapons ownership has been banned in certain periods, for certain classes of people, in certain places over the course of East Asian history, but in no way was it part of a common, long-term "Asian" experience, and in any case these were aimed at confiscating swords, spears, or guns, not eating utensils. This element of the myth may have been inspired by the "sword hunts" carried out in Japan at the close of the Sengoku period- the intense military competition during that era of civil war had led to social conditions much like that of early China, where heavily-armed peasants filled the ranks of great armies. In the late 16th century, as the wars wound down the would-be unifiers- first Oda Nobunaga, then Toyotomi Hideyoshi- launched campaigns to confiscate military weapons from people not of the warrior class, especially monks and peasants. By then, Japanese warriors and commoners alike had already been using chopsticks for about a thousand years.