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Per-prediction updates and Q&A on Professor Jiang Xueqin's geopolitical forecasts. 14 prediction updates · 18 Q&A posts.

• Q&A August 13, 2026

  How Jiang Xueqin Predicts Geopolitics: Structure Over Personality

  Jiang Xueqin's geopolitical predictions are built on three convictions: nations behave the way structural forces push them, empires decline in recognizable arcs, and history rhymes often enough to be useful. He does not forecast by bet

• Q&A August 12, 2026

  Jiang Xueqin's Best Geopolitical Predictions for 2026, Scored Live

  The best geopolitical predictions for 2026 are the ones made on the record, timestamped, and checkable against what actually happened. By that test, few analysts have put more on the line than Professor Jiang Xueqin, whose YouTube lectures

• Q&A August 11, 2026

  Who Predicted World War 3? Inside Jiang Xueqin's Forecast

  Professor Jiang Xueqin is one of the few public forecasters who explicitly declared World War III underway. In a 2024 Substack essay titled "World War III Begins," he framed the escalating confrontation between the United States a

• Q&A August 10, 2026

  Jiang Xueqin's Wrong Predictions: Every Miss on Record

  Professor Jiang Xueqin has gotten six predictions wrong. As of August 10, 2026, that is the complete count — six failed predictions against sixteen that came true, out of 376 calls logged from his lectures on the Predictive History channel.

• Q&A August 9, 2026

  What Jiang Xueqin Predicts About China: Cautious Power, No Taiwan War

  Jiang Xueqin argues that China is a cautious, strategically limited power — not the unstoppable hegemon of Western anxieties. The scholar spent much of his academic career inside China's education system before turning to geopolitical

• Q&A August 8, 2026

  Jiang Xueqin's Russia Predictions: Permanent War, Still Unfolding

  Russia sits at the center of Jiang Xueqin's geopolitical forecast — and it is the theme most stubbornly stuck in the future tense. Across the Russia and Ukraine predictions drawn from the system's 175 transcribed lectures, he retu

• Q&A August 7, 2026

  What Is Pax Judaica? Jiang Xueqin's Forecast of Israeli Hegemony

• Q&A August 5, 2026

  Predictive History: Forecasting Geopolitics Through Civilizational Patterns

  Predictive history is the forecasting method Professor Jiang Xueqin teaches across his YouTube lectures: treat the past as a dataset, find the patterns that repeat across civilizations, and project where current events are headed. The premi

• Q&A August 4, 2026

  Jiang Xueqin's Confirmed Predictions: More Right Than Wrong

  As of August 4, 2026, Professor Jiang Xueqin has 16 confirmed predictions out of 376 tracked on this site, against 6 judged wrong, with 337 still open or set aside as unverifiable. Across the 22 predictions that have fully resolved, his hea

• Q&A August 3, 2026

  Yes, Jiang Xueqin Predicted Trump's 2024 Win — Here's the Proof

  Jiang Xueqin called Trump's 2024 election win in April 2024, seven months before the vote and while most mainstream forecasters still treated the race as close. The claim (P001) is logged as confirmed on the tracker's Trump 2024 p

• Q&A August 2, 2026

  Yes — the Jiang Xueqin Iran War Calls Are Mostly Confirmed

  If you are searching for who predicted the Iran Israel war, Jiang Xueqin is one of the few analysts who committed to the forecast in public, on tape, and well before the shooting started. Across 176 transcribed lectures, the US-Iran conflic

• Q&A August 1, 2026

  Is Jiang Xueqin Credible? His Track Record Says Mostly Yes

  The number-driven answer is yes — with an honest caveat about sample size. As of 2026-08-01, this independent tracker has extracted 372 distinct predictions from Jiang Xueqin's lectures and resolved 22 of them against real-world news.

• Q&A July 31, 2026

  What Jiang Xueqin Predicted About the Global Economy and the Dollar

  Professor Jiang Xueqin's most consequential financial calls cluster around a single thesis: the American "dollar empire" is structurally fragile, and the mechanisms holding it together — foreign demand for U.S. Treasuries, th

• Q&A July 30, 2026

  Jiang Xueqin Predicted China Would NOT Invade Taiwan

  The short answer is no. Of the 372 predictions extracted from Professor Jiang Xueqin's YouTube lectures and tracked here as of 2026-07-30, exactly one qualifies as a China-Taiwan war prediction — and it argues against a war. In late 20

• Q&A July 29, 2026

  Jiang Xueqin's Israel Predictions: Pax Judaica and the Iran War

  Jiang Xueqin's forecasts about Israel are less a set of discrete bets than a single, staged argument: a war with Iran shatters the Gulf, America retreats, and Israel emerges as the dominant power of the Middle East — a phase he calls P

• Wrong P021 July 29, 2026

  US-Iran War Ends in June Ceasefire Deal, Refuting Jiang's World War III Forecast

  The United States and Iran reached a deal to end their war in June 2026, NPR reported, closing the conflict short of a global war and resolving a prediction that Professor Jiang Xueqin had framed as the start of World War III. The tracker h

• Q&A July 28, 2026

  Jiang Xueqin's Accuracy Record: More Right Than Wrong

  Professor Jiang Xueqin has been right far more often than he has been wrong — but only a thin slice of his predictions have resolved yet, and any honest assessment has to start there. As of 2026-07-28, this tracker has extracted 372 discret

• Q&A July 26, 2026

  What Jiang Xueqin Predicted About Ukraine — and How It's Testing

  Jiang Xueqin has treated the Russia-Ukraine war as one of his richest forecasting laboratories, extracting more than a dozen tracked calls from his lectures that span the battlefield's trajectory, Russia's post-invasion economy, a

• Q&A July 25, 2026

  Where to Watch Jiang Xueqin's Lectures on YouTube and Beyond

  Professor Jiang Xueqin publishes almost all of his geopolitical lectures on a single channel: Predictive History on YouTube (@PredictiveHistory). His only other first-party outlets are a Substack newsletter and an X account. There is no per

• Confirmed P129 July 10, 2026

  China to Restrict AI Girlfriends From July 15, Resolving a Jiang Prediction

  China will make AI girlfriends and virtual companions largely inaccessible from July 15, the Herald Goa reported on July 7, framing the product category as widespread enough to require regulation. The report resolves prediction P129, record

• Confirmed P016 June 17, 2026

  Iran War Ceasefire Nears After 101 Days With No Nuclear Weapons Used

  Donald J. Trump said on June 9, 2026, that a deal to end the Iran War could be signed within two to three days, KCRA reported — a development that came after more than 101 days of conflict with no nuclear weapons used at any point. That rep

• Wrong P013 June 17, 2026

  War Ends Without US Ground Troops in Iran, Falsifying a Two-Year-Old Jiang Call

  CNN reported on June 12, 2026 that the US military had prepared a ground mission to capture Iran's uranium but Donald J. Trump explicitly paused it before it launched, and the conflict has since concluded without American ground forces ente

• Wrong P072 June 16, 2026

  China Trained Russian Forces for Ukraine, Falsifying Jiang's 2025 Split Forecast

  China covertly trained Russian service members who later returned to fight in Ukraine, Reuters reported on May 19, a disclosure that points to deepening military cooperation between Beijing and Moscow rather than the rupture Professor Jiang

• Confirmed P020 June 12, 2026

  US Strikes on Iran's Water Infrastructure Leave 20,000 Without Water

  US strikes on Iran's water infrastructure left approximately 20,000 people without water, WION reported on June 11, 2026. Following that report, prediction P020 — Professor Jiang Xueqin's forecast that attacks on Iran's civilian infrastruct

• Wrong P017 June 12, 2026

  Russia Issued No Nuclear Umbrella Over Iran, Resolving a Jiang Forecast as Wrong

  Reuters reported on March 3, 2026, that Russia characterized US and Israeli strikes on Iran as potentially backfiring — warning that the conflict could push Iran and Arab nations toward acquiring nuclear weapons — rather than issuing any fo

• Confirmed P041 May 29, 2026

  Current Headlines Identify Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's Supreme Leader

  Multiple current headlines have identified Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s Supreme Leader, the automated fact-checker concluded on May 29, 2026. Following that conclusion, prediction P041 was recorded as confirmed.

• Confirmed P082 May 27, 2026

  Global Witness Report Resolves Jiang's Venezuela Attack Prediction

  Global Witness reported on Jan. 13, 2026, that the United States attacked Venezuela, resolving Professor Jiang Xueqin's prediction that America would attack Venezuela. Following that report, prediction P082 was recorded as confirmed on May

• Confirmed P071 May 27, 2026

  Time Magazine Said China Was Sitting Out the War on Iran

  Time Magazine described China as sitting out the war on Iran on March 23, resolving Professor Jiang Xueqin’s prediction that China would not significantly participate in the Iran conflict. Following that report, prediction P071 was recorded

• Confirmed P018 May 25, 2026

  PBS Timeline Shows US-Iran War Lasted Many Weeks

  PBS reported on April 21 that Donald J. Trump’s shifting public statements showed the US-Iran war had been underway from late February or March and remained a subject of ongoing or near-resolution discussion in mid-to-late April. Following

• Confirmed P015 May 25, 2026

  The Guardian Reported an Iran Campaign Shift, Resolving Jiang's Forecast

  The Guardian reported that Donald J. Trump moved from shock-and-awe bombardment to a wait-and-see posture in Iran, resolving Professor Jiang Xueqin's prediction that the doctrine would fail there. Following The Guardian's report, prediction

• Confirmed P001 May 22, 2026

  Donald J. Trump Won the 2024 Presidential Election, the AP Reported

  Donald J. Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the Associated Press reported on Nov. 6, 2024. Following the AP's report, prediction P001 was recorded as confirmed.

• Wrong P002a May 22, 2026

  Reuters Reported Donald J. Trump Picked JD Vance as His Running Mate

  Reuters reported on July 15, 2024, that Donald J. Trump selected Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The report resolved Professor Jiang Xueqin’s prediction that Trump would pick