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> if there's a war against China, "You’d need to walk around naked because you have no shirt, pants, socks, or underwear".

I agree that this is hyperbole and a bad example.

I'm not sure how long the author thinks such a war would last, or the aggregate US stockpile of textiles, or the source of cotton inputs into Chinese textile manufacturing, and so on...

Both I'm going to go out on a massive limb here and assume that even a decade-long cold war with China wouldn't result in a single American walking around naked who would have otherwise been clothed.

There are geopolitically significant manufacturing sectors where the west has ceded important ground in the last couple decades. Daily-use textiles isn't one of them.