FILE - This May 1, 2013, file photo shows an electric bus manufacturing plant by the Chinese firm BYD, in the Southern California city of Lancaster. California Gov. Gavin Newsom took an extra $1.8 billion from the state's dwindling coffers to pay for more protective gear and extra hospital beds to aid the state's response to the coronavirus. More than $445 million of that amount will go to Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD, which in April 2020, secured a $1 billion contract with the state to deliver 200 million masks a month. But BYD has had trouble fulfilling that contract. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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