Chinese police have detained four workers at Taiwanese iPhone maker Foxconn, with Taipei describing the situation as “bizarre”.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement that the employees were arrested in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, on charges of “breach of trust.”
The BBC has contacted Foxconn for comment.
The company is the largest iPhone maker for U.S. tech giant Apple and one of the world’s largest employers, with its main manufacturing plant in China.
Taiwanese authorities said the detentions may be a case of “abuse of power” by Chinese police.
He also said that the case has damaged the confidence of enterprises in China.
In October last year, China’s tax and land department launched a survey Enter the company.
At that time, Foxconn founder Terry Gou ran in Taiwan’s presidential election as an independent candidate.
Taiwan urged its citizens to “avoid unnecessary travel” to the mainland as well as Hong Kong and Macau after China unveiled guidelines in June detailing criminal penalties for what Beijing calls die-hard “Taiwan independence” separatists.
Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory is the world’s largest iPhone factory and is known as “iPhone City”.
Although for a long time geopolitical rift Foxconn, located between Beijing and Taipei, is one of many Taiwanese companies building factories in mainland China.
Beijing views the island as a breakaway province that will eventually become part of the country and has not ruled out using force to achieve that goal.
But many Taiwanese consider themselves part of an independent nation, although most favor maintaining the status quo, in which Taiwan neither declares independence from China nor unifies with China.
