Hello everyone I'm DaYu March
20 2026
Originally a conservative in the United States
Now nobody knows which faction they belong to And has already been officially dismissed by Trump himself
A prominent media figure in the MEGA movement
Tucker Carlson aired an interview with a more controversial Canadian-
Chinese internet celebrity
named Jiang Xueqin and
this came shortly after
Some American media's praise
including Carson's catapulted
Jiang Xueqin—already a well-
known internet celebrity—into
sudden prominence in U S public
discourse while ironically
sparking little interest in Chinese-speaking communities
Sparking debate once again he is himself a YouTuber running an English-language
channel with a substantial
subscriber count and recently
the American influencer
media outlet Breaking Point
conducted an interview with him
Views have already
surpassed 8 million
and he's even been given a nickname
—China's Nostradamus But in reality
Jiang Xueqin is no retired general
Not a geopolitical
expert at a Washington
think tank but he is a top graduate from
Yale well-read and genuinely has his own
insights on many matters
yet by title alone
He's just a middle school teacher in Beijing
—a middle-aged man lecturing in front of a
blackboard He became famous today because of
a classroom video recorded
about two years ago
He correctly predicted two-thirds of today's U S actions
against Iran with the remaining
third still pending verification but
the key point is that two-thirds were accurate which
instantly drew significant attention from the American public
His other viewpoints have also
sparked widespread discussion
so today we'll take a closer look at this phenomenon—
explaining what's behind it and
highlighting the controversies
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Jiang Xueqin is a complex phenomenon
He offers genuinely insightful
analysis but his framework also
incorporates numerous Western
conspiracy theories even more
concerning is that all his recent
viewpoints point in the same
direction—America is bound to lose
the West is destined to decline
Yet China never appears on the
enemy list — this perspective itself
is fundamentally the issue Jiang
Xueqin born in 1976 in Guangdong
Moved to Toronto Canada with his parents at
the age of six his father worked as a
dishwasher his mother as an interviewer he completed his studies at Yale on scholarship
Earned a Bachelor of Arts in
English in 1999—this was not
political science nor international
relations nor military strategy
but simply English literature
After graduation he did not
stay in Canada but returned to
China to work as a journalist
In 2001 he was commissioned by the
American PBS to
secretly travel to Daqing
and film a documentary about the labor
movement which was then erupting there
A massive protest by up to 50 000 laid-off workers
June 3 2002
He was interviewing a laid-off worker
Several undercover CCP agents suddenly rushed out
They threw him into a面包 van
detained him at a secret location
for 48 hours
Those people were CCP secret police
They told the scholarship recipient
that he was involved in illegal reporting
Attempting to incite anti-
China sentiment can result in
a 20-year prison sentence
ultimately they threw him back
into the car and rushed him
to the airport for deportation
The Canadian embassy in Beijing confirmed the incident
But people who've experienced treatment similar to that of the
CCP will usually tell you one thing:
the CCP's secret police often require some
confession and assurance
from you before releasing you
But it's unclear whether
such details also apply
to the scholarship which
in 2003 was
again permitted to return to China he no longer worked as a
journalist and switched to
education starting in 2008
Scholarship served as vice-principal at Shenzhen Middle
School in 2010 established the International Department
at Peking University High School later worked at Tsinghua High School and also
spent some time in Chengdu
In 2022 he began teaching
English and philosophy at
a Beijing-based educational
institution called Tanyue
School Keep in mind that although he is referred to as
"Professor" within his fan
community strictly speaking
This isn't his official
academic title—rather it's one recognized by his family
and fans Therefore Zheng emphasized that he's not a
professor but you could
say he's a senior educator
Between 2023 and 2024 he began uploading his
classroom teaching videos
to YouTube a move that has
been controversial in
China Since last year there
have been increasing numbers of such uploads
A YouTuber based in China claims to have been
harassed and arrested by
police facing exorbitant
fines simply for using a VPN to create content
on YouTube which the CCP considers illegal
Although the law itself is highly problematic there are
currently no signs that
scholarships for YouTube creators are
facing similar treatment but it's precisely his YouTube
videos that have now propelled
him onto the international stage
What really made it go viral was a class recording he
made on May 29 2024 at the High
School Affiliated to Peking University's International
Program when the U S President was still Biden and it remained
uncertain whether Trump would win
And for the vast majority
of people around the world
a U S -Iran war is still
just a plotline on Netflix
—distant from reality—but
the scholarship recipient
made three predictions at the blackboard: first
Trump will win the 2024 election
Second The U S will go to war with Iran
Third The U S will lose this war
Of course
The first two have already come true
The outcome of the third remains uncertain
Actually making such a prediction back
then was quite difficult
in mid-2024 Trump'
s chances of winning
according to betting
markets hadn't even reached fifty percent
It's akin to gambling
But the prospect of a war between the U S and Iran
although it might have seemed risky at the time
had already been discussed in academic circles
and similar conspiracy theories had long existed
For instance Mearsheimer who
has been researching foreign policy since the 2000s has consistently argued
that the United States will
eventually act against Iran
driven by the influence of the Israeli lobbying group
This matches exactly what is currently being said about the scholarship
However in the same classroom video
the scholarship also contains clearly incorrect predictions
For example he predicted
Trump might pick Nikki Haley as his vice president —
this now seems too absurd and
completely disconnected from
reality which is why he's suddenly gaining popularity
actually besides that video
clip there are other reasons
Beneath these reasons lies a
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As mentioned earlier
Jiang Xuqin's sudden
rise wasn't solely due to the prophecy
There are other reasons too—such as his having his own complete
set of narrative logic
but merely a set of logic does not equate to truth and his most
fundamental analysis is
It is also the central theme he has repeatedly
emphasized in his recent interviews with Tucker
Carlson and the Breaking Points program—that the
essence of the U S -Iran war is a war of attrition
It's not a
traditional head-on confrontation the
United States fundamentally
lacks a strategy for exiting
unscathed As he put it you can go in but you can't come out In his interview with Tucker
Comparing this conflict to
the war in Ukraine neither
side will admit defeat even if a ceasefire serves
both of their greatest interests because the war
will continue to roll forward due to its own momentum
His logic is this: if the United States wants to negotiate a ceasefire with Iran Iran's condition would be approximately one
trillion dollars in compensation plus the United States
permanently withdrawing from the
Middle East once the U S withdraws
The Gulf Cooperation Council nations would
gravitate toward Iran as only Iran can
guarantee passage through the Strait of
Hormuz Therefore the
Gulf Cooperation Council
It's the foundation of the petrodollar
system— they sell oil
in dollars recycle the
funds back into the U S market if this cycle breaks the U faces its $39 trillion debt
Losing a financially supported ally could trigger
turmoil across the entire financial system which is why
according to Jiang Jiqin this
is one of the main reasons
the U S cannot easily withdraw from the Iran conflict
In the Breaking Points program he further elaborated
on Iran's military strategy explaining that Iran has
been preparing for over 20 years through the Houthi
fighters the Hezbollah movement and the Party of
the Pearl
Hamas and other proxy networks continuously test U S
and Israeli military tactics with their core strategy
not being direct confrontation with U forces but rather
wearing down their opponents through low-cost methods
This drone costing around $50 000 is designed to
counter U S military interception missiles priced
at millions of dollars each resulting in a cost ratio of tens to even hundreds of times higher
For the United States prolonged confrontation
is not a sustainable strategy he also
specifically highlighted a rarely discussed
vulnerability—desalination
plants in Gulf states
These facilities supply large cities in
the bay with abundant water if continuously
targeted major cities like Lyad could face
severe water shortages in the short term
Iran's cheap drones selling for tens of thousands of dollars
could threaten the survival of millions in Gulf states
for these reasons Jiang Xueqin believes the U S military cannot afford to engage in a prolonged conflict with Iran
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard's words about the rat
hole underground that can't
beaten—prolonged confrontation
could risk Iran unleashing even greater destructive
power threatening regional and global economies
Such claims may sound alarmist at first glance but they
are indeed alarmist in reality veteran overseas democratic
activist Tang Baiqiao has pointed out that the U S military
still holds significant technological and firepower advantages
It remains decisive he criticized Jiang Xueqin's "
always losing to the U S " theory calling it an attempt
to deliberately cater to the emotions of a certain
audience rather than a serious strategic analysis
Newsweek also cited analysts saying Jiang Xueqin's historical
analogies are highly selective and
easily misleading to some people
Comparing the modern U S military to ancient Athens
' invasion of Sicily is more literary rhetoric than
scientific argument but the
current U -Iran conflict is unfolding in
real time—so who is right and who is wrong
Time will give us a precise answer For example
Jiang Xueqin in an interview put forward
an argument favorable to Iran stating
that if Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz
A 10% toll on every passing
vessel is expected to generate $
800 billion annually making Iran
wealthier than before the war
But this claim also has issues—oil passing
through the Strait of
Hormuz amounts to about
20 million barrels daily at current oil
prices annual trade value is extremely high
The feasibility of collecting a 10% toll is
entirely speculative—what mechanism would Iran use to
enforce it who would carry it out and how would it handle military opposition from other countries
These lack rigorous detail so critics
argue that Jiang Xueqin is using
seemingly precise numbers to package
an assumption that cannot be verified
Besides the Iran war in his
interview on Tucker Carlson
Tonight and on the Breaking Points program Jiang
Xueqin repeatedly emphasized one point: the U S economy
relies on foreign nations continuously buying dollars
The towering Ponzi scheme
Its logic is
the United States carries $39 trillion in national debt
The precondition for sustaining this system is
foreign investors continuously buying U S dollar assets
Once the petrodollar cycle breaks
the entire system faces collapse
and critics regard such claims of
a massive Ponzi scheme as alarmist
The dollar's dominance while
indeed discussed
in mainstream
economics is a
misleading framework
—Ponzi schemes are defined by
Paying old investors'
returns with new investors'
money completely lacking real asset backing while
the U S economy maintains genuine GDP output
technological assets and
military projection capabilities
Equating certain controversies within the dollar
system to a Ponzi scheme is
a deliberately provocative
statement but what's more significant is that he made this claim publicly on a Western
program without hesitation
Audiences who simply
accept Jiang Xueqing 's
viewpoint immediately develop distrust
toward the American system—this is highly
damaging and an irresponsible statement
Similar to what
he mentioned on the Breaking Points show where he noted
that 20% of white women under 25 in
the U S have an account on OnlyFans
This sustains stability in American society however
the 20% figure he proposed has no reliable source and
cannot be found in any authoritative research let
alone sustaining social
stability in the United States
You could say that to some extent the yellow
industries sustain the
normal operations of CCP party
officials—this would be
a more
credible claim As for the remarks about Israel he believes Israel—
Intentionally seeking to wear down the United States in
the Iran conflict in order
to enable Israel's vision of a
Greater Israel stretching
from the Nile to the Euphrates
some even argue that Israel hopes the U S loses this war
But in fact this claim
was not invented by Jiang
Xueqin—it is identical to
a long-established Western
conspiracy theory about
Israel and despite this for
many years no matter which president took office
None of this has affected military cooperation
between the U S and Israel but to some
friends unfamiliar with America this statement may
sound rather fresh From this detail alone
The conspiracy theories raised by Jiang Xueqin are
no less alarmist than those concocted earlier by
the Chinese student Lao A
from a dubious college in
Seattle who claimed the U S had assinated the line
The terrifying urban legend about America 's
double-soup apple is identical to the
one sold by Jiang Xueqin similar conspiracy
theories have long existed in the West
Europe is undergoing a calculated demographic
replacement within the
next two to four years civil
war or rebellion may erupt—a claim directly drawn from the American far-right discourse system
However it must be acknowledged that Europe is indeed facing certain crises including uncontrolled border issues which are
also severe in Europe it's not
just a concern for the next two
to four years—Europe has already
seen many such problems recently
Social cases are all connected to this but whether it will completely
collapse in recent
years is hard to say Of course
the last thing the CCP would want is for the West to fall
apart In addition Jiang Xueqin is still active on YouTube
Promoted conspiracy narratives involving
organizations such as the
Illuminati and Freemasons
weaving them into Jiang Xueqin's game theory
framework and historical structural analysis
He imparted these ideas to his students in class and to
his audience but Jiang Xueqin stated that such言论—similar to mainland China's feel-good web novels and exaggerated
boastful short videos on Douyin—constitute conspiracy theories
His audience finds it incredibly easy to get hooked—listen
a little more and they're drunk
listen too much and they'll
be poisoned by alcohol I think
American media figure Tucker
Carlson has already gotten hooked But Jiang Xueqin's views—
He wasn't solely criticizing
the United States or the West he also addressed the CCP including
the risks posed by the current U
S -Iran conflict to China's national interests—for instance
pointing out that 40% of China's
energy comes from the Gulf region
Cheap energy is the foundation
of China's entire economic
model so Middle Eastern conflicts
inflict a longer-term impact
on China than on any other
nation especially now that Chinese
people are unwilling to spend and
unwilling to take risks
With rising energy costs
China is the long-term biggest
loser he explained the mindset
of China's wealthy saying that
anyone with a billion dollars would invest entirely in
Japan rather than in China
itself which is why Jiang Xueqin
Who exactly is this person In the early
days for example in
2002 he was thrown into
a面包 van by the CCP's secret police
simply for speaking the truth in his reporting
Detained for 48 hours
Threatened with a 20-year sentence
2017
He published an article in CNN
titled How Chinese Media Fuels Tyranny and Corruption
That article
He wrote: Western media are
the last line of defense
for global freedom of speech free media in the
United States are the source
of Western strength and
progress CCP media corrupt
the soul of the nation
China will never be as great as the United States
until its citizens can freely
pursue truth At the same
time he spoke with the Wall Street Journal about Beijing's suspension of
international education programs
This is fundamentally a matter of political
soft power the CCP aims to project its influence
overseas while preventing its elites from
increasingly following Western educational paths
This is Jiang Xueqin from 2017—a
person who clearly
sees the CCP system
Then there's Jiang Xueqin in 2026
in a interview with Tucker Carlson
He said those words and also stated in class that Chinese people don't need
democracy characterizing the
United States as an empire
manipulated by the Israeli
lobbying group and secret
societies for nine years
Even more than ten years ago his views were
a complete 180-degree turn
from today's yet he has
never publicly explained the reasons behind
this shift Jiang Xueqin
is a complex phenomenon
Summarizing him in one word
is too simplistic some of
his structural analyses
regarding the Iran war are worth
considering but if you treat
him as a reliable source you
need to recognize that his statements contain certain biases
filled with unverifiable
data unverifiable even
exhibiting a strong anti-Israel bias long-known
conspiracy theories in the West and his recent
statements have indeed addressed
issues concerning China
But compared to Western critics who argue
that Jiang Xueqin's avoidance of China's issues is systematic
he currently resides in
a Chinese city strictly
controlled by the CCP
So do you really think Jiang Xueqin is
reliable What was his
third prediction about
the Iran war—that the U S would lose the
Iran war—what's your take on that now
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