Navarro: Entity List additions separate from China trade talks

The Commerce Department’s decision to sanction 28 Chinese entities because of their alleged involvement in human rights violations against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Chinese province of Xinjiang should not interfere with trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials this week, according to White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. “That’s totally unrelated to the trade negotiations,” Navarro told Fox Business News on Tuesday. “It was an initiative that came out of the Department of Commerce led by Secretary...