WASHINGTON — Several Chinese firms and the major international brands they supply pushed back against the Trump administration’s decision to add 11 Chinese companies to a government blacklist for aiding human rights violations, saying they had found no evidence of forced labor or other abuses in their supply chains.On Monday, the Trump administration added the Chinese companies to the so-called entity list, which bars them from buying American technology and products without a special license...

This week several released a statement calling worker rights and the treatment of minorities in Xinjiang an issue of “ unprecedented ” complexity, and asking the U.S. government to help assess it.... But the proposed legislation for Xinjiang goes further.... It says the security lockdown there makes it impossible to determine the true extent of coercion....