Taiwan security officials want Foxconn to drop stake in Chinese chipmaker – FT

(Reuters) – Taiwan’s national security officials want to force Apple Inc’s supplier Foxconn to unwind an $800 million investment in Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup, Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

The deal will definitely not go through, FT reported, citing a senior Taiwanese government official involved in national security issues.

(Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)