US adds 11 companies to economic blacklist; includes company that is supplier of Apple, Amazon and Microsoft

The US Commerce Department added to an economic blacklist 11 Chinese companies it said were implicated in human rights violations regarding China’s treatment of Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region.
The step, which leaves the firms unable to buy components from U.S. companies without U.S. government approval, prompted an accusation of slander from China, which vowed to take measures to protect its companies’ rights.
The Commerce Department said the companies were involved in using forced labor by Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups.
Among them are numerous textile companies and two firms the government said were conducting genetic analyses used to further the repression of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.