Jiang Xueqin

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]

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]

His writing has appeared in The New York Times (Chinese edition), China Youth Daily, The Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.^[10]

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][11]} Jiang also has a course, Western Philosophy, that has been recorded and uploaded to his YouTube channel.^[11]

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^[update].^[11][12]

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.^[11] 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.^[13]

• 创新中国教育 [Creative China]. 2014. ISBN 978-7-5117-2072-6.
• Schools for the Soul. 2021.^[14]
• "China's media enables tyranny and corruption". CNN. 23 November 2017.