Jiang Xueqin

Jiang Xueqin (; is a Chinese-born Canadian educator and commentator. In the 2000s, he was involved in education reforms in China. He is known for his YouTube channel Predictive History, on which he styles himself as "Professor Jiang".

Early life and education Jiang Xueqin was born in Taishan, Guangdong, China, in 1976. His father was a high school teacher. At the end of the Cultural Revolution, Jiang's family emigrated to Canada, where they settled in Toronto. His father became a short order cook, and his mother worked as a seamstress. Jiang recalled in 2026 that he had a poor childhood. As an undergraduate, he worked as a teacher at the Affiliated High School of Peking University in Beijing in 1998. While filming one such protest in Daqing in 2002, Jiang was arrested and detained for two days before being deported from China. A friend claimed that he was accused of "making illegal video recordings" and suspected of spying. No charges were filed.

In 2003, Jiang was allowed to return to China, where he decided to abandon freelance journalism and pursue educational reform instead at "high-profile schools". Program Director, Peking University High School International Division (2010–2012) Tsinghua University's Affiliate High School (2014)

He was a researcher with the Global Education Innovation Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and he has served on the selection committee for the Global Teacher Prize.

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

YouTube channel In 2023, Jiang created the YouTube channel Predictive History, in which he styles himself as "Professor Jiang" despite not teaching at the university level. The initial intention was recording his classes for his students to review. He describes his channel as employing structural historical analysis, game theory, and concepts inspired by Isaac Asimov's fictional psychohistory to interpret and predict important geopolitical developments.

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 . According to the South China Morning Post, which described some of his lectures as "veering into well-trodden conspiracy theories on shadowy secret societies", in "Pax Judaica", the concluding lecture about Greater Israel of his Secret History series, Jiang has presented a theory that after the US is forced from the Middle East, the Illuminati, an organization comprised of Freemasons, Jesuits and Sabbateans, would control the world from Jerusalem. Yang Meng, assistant professor at Peking University, argues in the National Post that Jiang has promoted the antisemitic notion that Israel has practiced ritual child sacrifice in the Gaza war.

"Professor" moniker Jiang's usage of the moniker "Professor", as a high school teacher, has also been described as misleading. He has defended the usage saying that he did not initially name his channel as such and only started using the title after fans started calling him by that name.