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

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.

South China Morning Post