Recently I’ve seen a lot of videos on Youtube and Tiktok attacking professor Jiang, and they do make some good points but I don’t think they will hurt his popularity or his ability to teach.
The thing is, even if some of the major predictions turn out to be wrong, even if he makes factual mistakes, even if he gets interviewed by the shadiest content creators… Still, I think he will come out unscathed because what he offers his viewers is far more than technical knowledge.
It’s clear that he is not your ordinary influencer, and for sure, he’s not your ordinary teacher.
He’s the kind of person who shows up when the world is changing dramatically, where people feel more anxious than usual, when they’re deeply insecure about the future, when they feel without direction.
Then someone like him shows up and presents a compelling narrative that seems to explain everything.
This makes you feel more in control and it also makes you feel like you are part of a community of millions of people just like you… People who are sick and tired of how things are going and are seeking a way to make sense of all of this bullshit.
So what these viewers get out of these lectures is more confidence; You feel like you are better than ordinary people because you know more than they do, which might prompt you to learn more about history or science.
Now, his lectures are structured like a TV Show – you have a compelling narrative within the lecture but these stories are also connected to a bigger arc.
This way of teaching is not only interesting; it can also help the viewer look at a situation from a bigger perspective. It’s like you are looking at a chess board – with players, incentives, and potential moves.
As a result, you are able to form a coherent narrative about what is happening in the world and your place in it, which can empower you. You don’t feel like a victim anymore.
The problem with thinking in terms of narratives is that it can push you into strengthening your own biases, and unless you get painfully, preferably publicly wrong, you won’t build the necessary discipline to confront the facts.
So while watching his lectures can help you be more confident and curious, it can as easily send you down into the rabbit hole of conspiracies.
And this leads to the dark side of Professor Jiang.
I know that if you have been a fan, doubting him is not easy, but if you’ve seen his lectures, he’s constantly telling you to think for yourself, to not be a sheep, to improve your critical thinking.
Well, let’s do just that…
1999 he graduated from Yale with a degree in literature but he hates the place. He’s a poor kid who was smart enough to get a scholarship but is surrounded by a bunch of spoiled, privileged peers. So he decides to go back to China.
Three years later he’s contracted by the documentary producer Jon Alpert to film a controversial protest. He was arrested, forced to sign a confession that he was a spy and that Alpert was the spy master, then deported to Canada.
Jiang eventually managed to waltz back into China and not only that but teach at elite high schools.
One could say that he made a deal to be their spy but the truth is much simpler.
First of all he got away with a measly signed confession because he was a Canadian citizen. Sending him to prison simply for filming would cause a diplomatic headache.
Second, the wealthy Chinese are obsessed with sending their kids to Western Universities. And here you have this guy who graduated from Yale who could help.
Remember how much he supposedly hated Yale and the privileged kids?
Now he’s working for them… in China.
So he learned that to survive in that kind of environment you must never question authority; You must repeat their worldview over and over and over – even if what they’re saying is bs.
In other words, you don’t need to sign a blood oath with the CCP – You just learn to ignore all the stupidity of the regime and accept their narratives in return for more money and power, which brings us to the professor you’re watching on YouTube right now.
I used to watch his lectures but I stopped when it felt like he was being unreasonably against the West; When he denied holocaust, which really caught me off guard because that can be expected from some moron on twitter but not from a history professor; and I was also deterred by this analysis based entirely on religious prophecies.
Back then I didn’t really put much thought to it. I just thought he’s yet another intellectual who’s gaining fame and needs to be more and more controversial to keep the money machine going… Kinda like Jordan Perterson.
But recently, it became clear to me that I was wrong.
Because if we look beyond what I like to call decorations… claims of using game theory, laws that aren’t laws, secret societies, trending events…
You know when we look at the core narratives he’s spreading, they are suspiciously similar to the propaganda that the CCP has been pushing for years.
What are those narratives?
I’m glad you asked.
To better understand the worldview of CCP we will look at this article titled, U.S. Economic Hegemony – Looting and Exploitation
The idea is that the US can print a $100 bill for 17 cents which means that they are exchanging this almost worthless piece of paper for actual physical goods from other nations. They are essentially looting the world.
Then we have this document – US Hegemony and its Perils where they take actual facts and spin them to form a theory where the US is a ruthless, parasitic bully.
If you have watched enough interviews and lectures of Jiang, this can sound eerily familiar.
Here are some examples:
In a conversation with Glen Diessenn he said that the US intervened in Venezuela just to spite China and not to benefit oil companies because they don’t have the necessary technology to use that oil. That couldn’t be more wrong. The US corporations are specifically designed and NEED heavy crude oil to function.
In the Tucker Carlson show he said:
But this would mean the collapse of the end of the US dollar as a global reserve currency. Remember that America is sitting on $39 trillion in debt. And so the American economy is a Ponzi scheme that relies on foreign nations to continually buy US dollars. So the US economy would not be able to withstand essentially American withdrawal from the Middle East.
On the interview for the breaking point he said a similar thing:
“if the Gulf states are no longer able to sell oil and they’re no longer able to finance AI, this AI bubble in the United States will burst, and with it will burst the entire American economy, which is really a financial Ponzi scheme.”
He added on Pierce Morgan that once GCC switches from Petrodollar to whatever financial system Iran wants, then since US economy is a ponzi scheme that depends on GCC to invest in AI, stocks, and startups like Uber then in order to finance the US economy – If the financing stops then the US economy could collapse this means that young men could not afford their onlyfans subscriptions so this could lead to a revolution to the streets.
In addition, in a conversation with Cyruss Janssen, Jiang explains how Russia had to protect its people from ethnic cleansing; that Russia is actually fighting NATO; that they are under threat by NATO; Ukraine is a weak nation, etc.
If you had no context about him whatsoever you could easily say that he works under Sergei Lavrov.
In this article, you have all the points he made and the explanations why they aren’t true.
Now, I know it’s difficult to recognize him as a propagandist because he doesn’t paint the CCP as great. He rarely even mentions China.
But propaganda is not necessarily about making shit up and about saying that your country is greater than the rest. A crucial part is to demoralize the enemy – in this case to demoralize the people who live in the West.
Think about the ideas being sold to you… That democracy is a scam; that your economy is built on exploitation, parasitism and not on innovation; that there will be a civil war; that nothing will ever get better.
Every single day, people around the world, but especially in the west, are being bombarded with a worldview that is cynical or even nihilistic.
Obviously, Jiang didn’t start the fire. The fact that the situation in the West is chaotic is purely due to the incompetence and corruption of its politicians. He’s simply throwing a modest amount of gasoline into this already massive fire.
He is spreading the core narratives that the CCP has been pushing for years, and is doing it in a super effective way. I mean he has crafted such compelling narratives that the propaganda office of CCP can only dream of.
Plus, he has necessary authority to talk about this because he’s graduated from Yale and he has lived in the West.
Now I think that he has reached a phase where he’s invincible. Because even if his major predictions turn out to be wrong, there will still be lots of people who will follow him – because those lectures make them feel more confident and superior.
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If you doubt this, just look at what happened to andrew tate. When there were serious accusations of rape and abuse, he took a hit in popularity, but there were still millions of people following him.
In Jiang’s case, the worst scenario is that the US wins the war and his prediction is wrong – which isn’t a big deal – because he will simply frame it as ‘not really a win’ and double down on bigger predictions.
As I’m writing this, I’m thinking: If we look at the situation from his perspective… Is the fact that he’s spreading propaganda really a bad thing?
After all, he’s contributing, albeit modestly, so that his own country gains more power.
So he’s neither a prophet or a grifter; he’s an operative. And whether he was instructed by the CCP from the start or just stumbled into fame doesn’t matter. What matters is the impact he’s having in the minds of millions of people.
