China: Right to Leave Country Further Restricted.
China: Right to Leave Country Further Restricted.
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China: Right to Leave Country Further Restricted | Human Rights Watch | Text Version
Chinese authorities are requiring citizens from locales they broadly consider to be high risks for online fraud or “unlawful” emigration to submit additional paperwork and obtain approval from multiple government offices during passport application processes. Those not meeting these cumbersome requirements are often denied passports. The government has long restricted people’s access to passports in areas where Tibetans and Uyghurs predominantly live.
Many Mandarin speakers around South-East Asian are getting lured by high paying foreign jobs, getting kidnapped on arrival in Bangkok or Phnom Penh and then end up working in scam centres in Myanmar and Cambodia. Malaysians are highly sought after because many are fluent in both English and Mandarin.
I'm not making the connection between what you are discussing and the story here.
He's filling in the details on the fraud the article references I think