Jiang Xueqin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Jiang.
Jiang Xueqin
江学勤[ph 1]
Jiang in 2025
Born1976 (age 49–50)
Guangdong, China[1]
CitizenshipCanada[2]
EducationYale College (BA)
OccupationsEducator, Blogger, YouTuber
Instagram information
Page
Followers971 thousand
Substack information
Newsletter
Notes@predictivehistory
Subscribers81 thousand
TikTok information
Page
Followers162.5 thousand
Twitter information
Handle
Display nameJiang Xueqin
Followers163.5 thousand
YouTube information
Channel
Subscribers2.06 million
Views59.5 million
Last updated: March 17, 2026

Jiang Xueqin (Chinese: 江学勤[ph 1]; pinyin: Jiāng Xuéqín; born 1976[ph 2]) is a Chinese-Canadian educator, commentator and YouTuber. In the 2000s, he was involved in education reforms in China.[3][4] Since 2022, he has worked as a teacher at Moonshot Academy high school in Beijing.[5] He is also known for his YouTube channel Predictive History, on which he styles himself as "Professor Jiang".[6]

Early life and education

Jiang Xueqin was born in Guangdong. His father is a short-order cook, and his mother is a seamstress. At the age of 6, Jiang's family immigrated to Canada, where they settled in Toronto. Jiang was awarded a scholarship and attended Yale College within Yale University[2], graduating in 1999 with a degree in English literature.[5] Jiang holds Canadian citizenship.[4][1]

Career

In 1998, while still studying as an undergraduate at Yale, Jiang worked his first teaching job, a six-month stint at the Affiliated High School of Peking University in Beijing.[4] In 2000, Jiang moved to Beijing, where he worked as a freelance journalist. Jiang has written for publications such as the American Christian Science Monitor and the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review.[1]

In 2002, Jiang initiated educational reforms at Shenzhen Middle School.[3][4]

In 2001, Jiang was contracted to conduct an undercover U.S.-funded PBS documentary about the labor movement in China.[7][8] While filming one such protest in Daqing, Jiang was arrested and detained for two days before he was deported from China on 5 June 2002. A friend claimed that he was accused of "making illegal video recordings" and suspected of spying. No charges were filed.[1]

In 2003, Jiang was allowed by Chinese officials to return to China, where he decided to abandon freelance journalism and pursue public education instead.[8]

Jiang has since held senior administrative and teaching positions at several prominent Chinese secondary schools, including:

  • Deputy Principal, Shenzhen Middle School (2008–2010)[3]
  • Program Director, Peking University High School International Division (2010–2012)
  • Tsinghua University's Affiliate High School (2014)[4]
  • History and Philosophy Teacher, Moonshot Academy Beijing (2022-present).[ph 1]

He was a researcher with the Global Education Innovation Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and has served on the selection committee for the Global Teacher Prize.[9][10]

His writing has appeared in The New York Times (Chinese edition), China Youth Daily, The Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[11]

YouTube channel

Jiang is the creator of the YouTube channel Predictive History, which he launched prior to 2024 on which he styles himself as "Professor Jiang". His description of the channel includes employing structural historical analysis, game theory, and concepts inspired by Isaac Asimov's fictional psychohistory to interpret and predict important geopolitical developments.[ph 3][12] Jiang also has a course, Western Philosophy, that has been recorded and uploaded to his YouTube channel.[12]

Jiang's Geo-Strategy episode, "The Iran Trap" (2024), has attracted international attention, predicting the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 and escalating U.S. involvement in a conflict with Iran (cf. the 2025 and 2026 conflicts) and eventual U.S. loss in a prolonged conflict, the first two of which have come true as of 2026.[12][13]

While some media outlets described Jiang's lecture on Iran in 2024 as prophetic (earning him the moniker "Nostradamus of China"), others criticized the predictions for relying on selective historical analogies, speculative game theory reasoning, and untestable assumptions.[12] The Free Press described Jiang as a conspiracy theorist who has promoted conspiracy theories about the Illuminati, Freemasons, Jesuits and Sabbateans through his YouTube channel.[6] Yang Meng, assistant professor at Peking University, writes that Jiang has promoted conspiracy theories relating to Israel, such as claiming that Israel has practiced ritual child sacrifice in the Gaza war.[14]

Publications

  • 创新中国教育 [Creative China]. 2014. ISBN 978-7-5117-2072-6.
  • Schools for the Soul. 2021.[15]
  • "China's media enables tyranny and corruption". CNN. 23 November 2017.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Canadian journalist expelled for investigating workers' strikes". Reporters Without Borders. 11 June 2002.
  2. ^ a b "我花四年考入耶鲁，却用了十年才走出它带来的迷茫" [It took me four years to get into Yale, but ten years to emerge from the confusion it brought me]. Sohu (in Chinese). 21 July 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  3. ^ a b c Wei, Xiaohan (11 June 2022). "Bitter Lessons From a Chinese Education Reformer". Sixth Tone. Archived from the original on 14 January 2026. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  4. ^ a b c d e Johnson, Ian (8 April 2014). "Solving China's Schools: An Interview with Jiang Xueqin". The New York Review.
  5. ^ a b "Xueqin Jiang | 江学勤". MOONSHOT ACADEMY. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  6. ^ a b Page, River. "Meet the Internet's New Iran Expert—Who Thinks the Illuminati Runs the World". The Free Press. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
  7. ^ "Canadian journalist deported from China". The Globe and Mail. 6 June 2002.
  8. ^ a b Xueqin, Jiang (23 November 2017). "China's media enables tyranny and corruption". CNN. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
  9. ^ "Research Team: Xueqin Jiang". Global Education Innovation Initiative (Research Team profiles). Harvard Graduate School of Education. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  10. ^ "Jiang Xueqin". Big Think (Profile page). Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  11. ^ "Who Is Jiang Xueqin? Professor's viral video from 2024 predicted Trump's return and U.S. role in Israel-Iran war". The Financial Express. 23 June 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  12. ^ a b c d "The Professor Who Predicted Trump's Return and War With Iran". Newsweek. 24 June 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  13. ^ "Chinese History professor's viral prediction of Trump re-election, Iran war stuns netizen". WION. 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  14. ^ Meng, Yang (6 February 2026). "Yang Meng: Moral shortcuts have fuelled the surge of antisemitism in Canada". National Post.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "Jiang Xueqin". Global Teacher Prize. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2026.

Primary sources

  1. ^ a b c "江学勤 Xueqin Jiang 英语老师，哲学老师" [Jiang Xueqin, English teacher, philosophy teacher]. Moonshot Academy (Profile page). 北京市朝阳区林萃路2号国家网球中心莲花球馆 [Lotus Hall, National Tennis Center, No. 2 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing]
  2. ^ "Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang". YouTube. 12 June 2025.
  3. ^ Predictive History. YouTube. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.