Foxconn, a Fortune 500 firm identified globally for making Apple iPhones, was just lately subjected to searches by Chinese language tax authorities, in line with native reviews Sunday.

Foxconn, a Taiwan-headquartered firm formally registered as Hon Hai Precision Trade Co., Ltd, had its workplaces in Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces searched by tax officers, in line with a report within the Chinese language state-run World Occasions newspaper.

The Ministry of Pure Assets additionally inspected Foxconn workplaces in Henan and Hubei provinces, the place the corporate has main factories. Foxconn employs lots of of hundreds of employees throughout China.

The report didn’t present extra particulars in regards to the searches, together with once they occurred or what was discovered.

It additionally quoted an professional who stated that “whereas Taiwan-funded enterprises, together with Foxconn, are sharing in dividends from improvement and making outstanding progress within the mainland, they need to additionally assume corresponding social tasks and play a optimistic function in selling the peaceable improvement of cross-strait relations.”

Tensions have been excessive between China and Taiwan in recent times. China claims the democratic self-governing island of Taiwan as a part of its personal territory. The perimeters cut up in 1949 after a civil battle and don’t have any official relations however are linked by billions of {dollars} in commerce and funding.

The Chinese language Communist Social gathering repeatedly flies fighter planes and bombers close to Taiwan to implement its stance that the island is obliged to unite with the mainland, by power if essential.

The tensions have sometimes spilled over into the financial realm. Lately, China has banned pineapples, grouper fish and different agricultural merchandise from Taiwan for import.

Nonetheless, it has largely shunned concentrating on Taiwanese corporations that function on the mainland.

Foxconn does most of its manufacturing in China. The corporate stated in a press release Sunday night that it’s going to “actively cooperate with the related models on the associated work and operations.”

The corporate’s founder, Terry Gou, introduced in August that he could be operating as a candidate in Taiwan’s presidential elections, which will likely be held early subsequent yr. He then resigned from his seat on the board of Foxconn.

Gou is seen as a China-friendly candidate whose politics largely align with the Kuomingtang, the island’s present opposition celebration.