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Let's say that's the case.

To what end? Selling them to the West and putting their own garment makers out of business?

Or using them domestically to put their own garment makers out of work? Do their garment makers then build robots? Does the math equal out? (I have no clue)

The labor dislocation would be extreme initially either way, and would be resisted. Take China's agriculture for example, they intentionally hold down productivity gains in agriculture to keep enough work available for the huge agriculture worker population and limit labor disruption.

It wouldn't take very long to severely reduce garment making in China and Vietnam once robotics gained a foot hold. The country with the least to lose in the robotic shift, that is highly capable of making that shift, would win very quickly.