Outsourcing American jobs to countries like India and China has been a polarizing issue ever since U.S. companies started shipping different parts of their business processes overseas to capitalize on the differences in labor costs. Businesses of every size, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, report multiple outsourcing success stories and expound the benefits of transforming the U.S. economy by creating new trade markets and by sending work overseas. (Ott, 2007) It is clearly evident that China’s emergence as a manufacturing superpower was fueled by the massive transfer of production and other industries into China, and the colossal magnitude of the U.S. consumption of these outsourced products and services. If the U.S. economy continues to decline due to its vast array of failing policies and immense growth in government spending, could a US export dependant nation such as China really sustain its role as a manufacturing superpower? Is it plausible to think that the interdependence between the U.S. and China could exist as a key component in the same U.S. economic struggles that indirectly threaten the progression of the Chinese economy by means of a reduction in U.S. consumption? Before one can even begin to answer these intricate questions, he or she must fully grasp the benefits and consequences of outsourcing to China.