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Whether #AbdurehimHeyit is alive or not, whether reports of his death, his torture are true, or the video of him speaking on 9 Feb is real, there are several takeaways from the incident which resulted in Turkey calling for the end to Chinese mass internment of Uyghurs 1/x
First, PRC admitted that #AbdurehimHeyit has been arrested and "is being investigated" in (after two years in prison)--for, it appears, lyrics in his songs. The Chinese superpower is panicked about a man playing a lute with just two strings. (Not even an electric guitar!) 2/x
How loud can those two silk strings be? This is not an expression of Chinese strength. It is an admission of weakness to have to lock up a poet and a musician--along with hundreds of thousands of others. China's own poets (e.g. Qu Yuan, Li Bai) would not approve 3/x
