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Global EV giant BYD is building a new factory in Hungary to bypass tariffs and pump thousands of cheap electric cars into the European market. Hungarian leaders have praised the project as a major investment. But as The World’s Transportation Correspondent Jeremy Siegel learned, workers at the plant — many of whom are Chinese migrants flown in on temporary visas — are facing conditions investigators liken to forced labor.