Sources inside Guantanamo Bay, the United States detention center run out of Cuba, have acknowledged that they have been using Chinese water torture as an interrogation technique. They immediately followed this by announcing that this policy will be changed. “We realize now that what we’ve been doing is wrong.” Said Cpt. Rodrigo Flores, 29.  “It is unfair of us to characterize an entire demographic with a torture device. After a brainstorming session with the ACLU, we have decided to call it 'Drip-Based Psychological Chipping.'”

Pfc. David Finley is a Drip-based Psychological Chipping (DBPC) technician. “Basically,” Finley said, “[DBPC] involves strapping the subject to a table, and completely immobilizing all his joints. You then let large drops of freezing cold water fall repetitively on his forehead. It’s not the water so much as the loss of power that gets to them. And while the process was created in China, I think calling it “Chinese water torture” perpetuates a negative image of Chinese culture. Also, it’s not torture.”

But not everyone agrees with Finley. Ted Liu, 53, is an Asian-American Civil Rights activist. “This is just another attempt of another nation trying to take credit for one of our ideas,” he said, “It’s shameful. If someone is going to use Chinese water torture on a detainee, they should give credit to who came up with it.”