Jiang Xueqin, the viral ‘prophet’ predicting the world’s fate from a Beijing classroom

Jiang Xueqin, a Chinese-Canadian teacher at a Beijing high school, has attracted a huge online audience after some of his geopolitical predictions came true.

Photo: Handout Beijing-based high-school teacher Jiang Xueqin may not seem like an obvious candidate for a geopolitical “prophet”.

Dressed casually in a polo shirt, the greying Chinese-Canadian looks unassuming.

But through his hugely popular Predictive History YouTube channel, Jiang has become known as “China’s Nostradamus”, gaining a following for his outlook on world affairs.

While most of his fans are outside China, his lectures and interviews have been translated and uploaded on Chinese social media sites, prompting a range of discussion about his programmes and perspectives.

Jiang is best known for three “big predictions” he made in May 2024, when US president Joe Biden was still in office.

First, he said Donald Trump would win the presidential election later that year.

Second, he said the United States would then launch a war on Iran.

Now Jiang’s fans are waiting to see if the third forecast will also come to pass – one that predicts a turning point in the global order.

However, “Professor Jiang’s” ideas on the existing order can be controversial, veering into well-trodden conspiracy theories on shadowy secret societies.

Jiang Xueqin, a Chinese-Canadian educator once known narrowly for his work on education, has become known for his predictions on geopolitics.

Photo: Handout Jiang was born in China in 1976 and moved to Toronto when he was six.

He has described his parents as “very poor” and “not well educated”.

Despite his humble background, he graduated from Yale University in 1999 with a degree in English literature.

Jiang then went on to work as a freelance journalist.

According to Reporters Without Borders, he was detained by police in the northeastern Chinese city of Daqing in 2002 after recording a workers’ demonstration.

He was later expelled from the country.

However, Jiang was allowed to return and began working as a teacher, beginning a long history of involvement in educational reform.

From 2008 to 2012, he worked to move the curriculum of high-profile schools in Shenzhen and Beijing away from their laser focus on gruelling test prep – ultimately unsuccessfully.

His efforts gained him coverage both in Chinese and foreign media.

As recently as this February, he was listed as a researcher by Harvard University’s Global Education Innovation Initiative, though this pa

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