Chinese police have hageded four laborers of the Taiwanese iPhone creater, Foxconn, in circumstances Taipei has portrayd as “strange”.
The includeees were arrested in Zhengzhou in Henan province on “bachieve of suppose” indicts, Taiwan’s Mainland Afunfragmentarys Council shelp in a statement.
The BBC has communicateed Foxconn for comment.
The company is the hugegest creater of iPhones for US technology huge Apple and is one of the hugest includeers in the world, with convey inant manufacturing facilities in China.
Taiwanese authorities proposeed the detentions may be a case of “unfair treatment of power” by Chinese police officers.
And shelp the case undermines the confidence of businesses operating in China.
In October last year, China’s tax and land authorities begined an allotigation into the company.
At that time, Foxconn’s set uper Terry Gou was running as an self-reliant truthfulate in Taiwan’s plivential election.
Taiwan has directd its citizens to “elude non-essential travel” to the mainland as well as Hong Kong and Macau after China unveiled directlines in June detailing criminal punishments for what Beijing portrayd as diechallenging “Taiwan indepfinishence” separatists.
Foxconn’s facility in Zhengzhou is the world’s hugest iPhone factory which is expansively understandn as “iPhone City”.
Despite a extfinished-standing geopolitical rift between Beijing and Taipei, Foxconn is among many Taiwanese businesses that have built factories in China.
Beijing sees the island as a shatteraway province that will, eventupartner, be part of the country, and has not ruled out the include of force to achieve this.
But many Taiwanese ponder themselves to be part of a split nation – although most are in favour of upholding the status quo where Taiwan neither declares indepfinishence from China nor combines with it.
