In the "Why am I not surprised" department...

From the New York Times

China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo

By SCOTT SHANE

Published: July 2, 2008

An interrogation class at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was based on a 1957 study of Chinese Communist techniques used to obtain confessions, many of them false,
from U.S. prisoners.

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