Taipei, Taiwan
Reuters
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Four employees of Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, have been detained in China under “extremely bizarre” circumstances, the Taiwanese government said.
Four employees have been detained in Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s Henan province, where the major Foxconn factory that assembles Apple’s (AAPL) iPhones is located, the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Committee said in a statement to Reuters on Thursday. announced that it had been done. “breach of trust”.
“The circumstances of this case are extremely strange,” the newspaper said.
The council added that the incident may be related to corruption and abuse of power by a small number of Chinese security officials, but gave no details.
Foxconn declined to comment.
The council said Foxconn had told the company there was “no loss and the four employees had done nothing to harm the company’s interests.”
“This has seriously damaged corporate trust. We urge relevant departments across the Taiwan Strait to investigate and take action as soon as possible.”
The China-Taiwan Affairs Office did not respond to requests for comment outside of business hours.
In June, Taiwan raised its travel warning to China, warning citizens not to travel to China unless absolutely necessary, after Beijing threatened to execute people deemed to be “hardcore” Taiwanese independence supporters. I asked him not to go.
China claims that it has democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, overcoming strong opposition from the Taipei government.
Since China began its groundbreaking economic reforms 40 years ago, Taiwanese companies have invested billions of dollars in China, armed with a shared culture and language and much lower costs.
