Taiwan’s government said that they had been accused of a breach of trust, but that their employer, Foxconn, had denied the company suffered any losses.

Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, in a statement to Reuters on Thursday, said the four employees had been detained in China's Zhengzhou, home to a major Foxconn plant assembling Apple's iPhones, on suspicion of the equivalent of "breach of trust".

Four employees of Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, have been detained in China under “quite strange” circumstances, Taiwan’s government said.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday in New York he believes the league's relationship with China has mended to the point games will be played there again.

Commissioner Adam Silver believes that the NBA could stage games in China again, five years after a controversy over the Hong Kong democracy protests prompted a backlash against the top-flight North American league.

Five years after the NBA’s last game in China, commissioner Adam Silver believes the league will return to the country at some point. The NBA has not played a game there since 2019, when two preseason games were held in the shadow of controversy after a tweet by then-Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in support of freedom for Hong Kong.