Chinese police have detained 4 people of the Taiwanese iPhone maker, Foxconn, in situations Taipei has described as “bizarre”.

The employees had been arrested in Zhengzhou in Henan province on “breach of accept as true with” costs, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement.

The BBC has contacted Foxconn for remark.

The enterprise is the most important maker of iPhones for US generation massive Apple and is one of the biggest employers in the international, with primary production facilities in China.

Taiwanese government advised the detentions can be a case of “abuse of power” with the aid of Chinese law enforcement officials and stated the case undermines the self assurance of organizations working in China.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson stated they were now not privy to the matter.

In October last yr, China’s tax and land authorities released an research into the agency.

At that point, Foxconn’s founder Terry Gou become jogging as an impartial candidate in Taiwan’s presidential election.

Taiwan has advised its citizens to “avoid non-essential travel” to the mainland in addition to Hong Kong and Macau after China unveiled suggestions in June detailing crook punishments for what Beijing defined as diehard    “Taiwan independence” separatists.

Foxconn’s facility in Zhengzhou is the world’s largest iPhone factory that is extensively known as “iPhone City”.

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Despite a protracted-standing geopolitical rift between Beijing and Taipei, Foxconn is among many Taiwanese groups that have constructed factories in China.

Beijing sees the island as a breakaway province on the way to, ultimately, be part of the us of a, and has now not dominated out using force to obtain this.

But many Taiwanese take into account themselves to be part of a separate state – although most are in favour of retaining the status quo where Taiwan neither announces independence from China nor unites with it.