QUESTION: Which nation has a comparative advantage in food production? Which nation has a comparative advantage in textile production?

U.S. trade with mainland China has exploded in the past decade, with goods imports reaching $467 billion a year and exports up to $124 billion. For the following questions, we consider a hypothetical production possibilities frontier for food and textiles in both China and the United States.
The table below presents daily production possibilities for a typical worker in both China and the United States, assuming that only two kinds of goods are produced in both countries:
food and textiles.

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Output per worker per day (units) Food Textiles China 1 2 United States 9 3