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Just to make things more clear for people, this is about subcontractors, employed by what looks to be a local building company that is making a new factory for BYD EVs.

I think the article’s title really makes it look like BYD is the one withholding passports and wages, but actually they are not and inside the article they say BYD has already asked the subcontractor to improve working conditions before it became news, but they didn’t comply.

The article doesn’t specify how much BYD’s executives knew or if they had the ability to change things by their own choise.

So, they says they want change but, when presented with the possibility of supporting communism, they instead decide to become fascist to support the status quo.

Historically checks out.