This makes me sick.  Of course, whether the American military uses torture techniques learned from China or TV doesn't matter.  America should not ever be associated with torture.  Nonetheless, this NYT article supports my concern that China and America are reversing roles in human rights and freedom.  Hopefully, we'll make a recovery with the next presidential election. 

The military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

China Inspired Interrogations at Guantanamo