Jan Wellmann
Nobody had heard of Jiang Xueqin eighteen months ago. He was a high school history teacher in Beijing, recording lectures on a whiteboard for teenagers who probably wanted to be somewhere else. Then the war started, and suddenly this man — BA in English literature, not a professor by any institutional definition of the word, expelled from China in 2002 for inconvenient journalism and somehow let back in without explanation — was on Tucker Carlson, on Breaking Points, in every algorithm simultaneously, two million subscribers materialized from nowhere, dubbed “China’s Nostradamus” by a media apparatus that didn’t stop to ask who let him back through the gate.
He called Trump’s return. He called the Iran war. He called JD Vance as running mate in May 2024, months before the announcement. He predicted the exact rhetorical framing Trump would use to justify the war, word for word, a year before Trump said it on television. Whether Jiang is an independent theorist who reads history better than everyone else, or a very well-positioned messenger delivering a script to a Western audience primed to receive it, remains the most interesting question nobody in his comment section is asking. Both options are on the table. Neither is comforting.
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