#425 - "They Control Trump & Netanyahu" The Secret Family No One Talks About | Professor Jiang

Episode of Danny Jones Podcast · August 24, 2026 · 4 h 4 min

Professor Xueqin Jiang tells Danny Jones how China really works and argues Chabad-linked messianic religious beliefs drive U.S. and Israeli policy.

Summary

Professor Xueqin Jiang, a Beijing-based teacher whose YouTube channel Predictive History grew from 200 subscribers to nearly 2.8 million after he predicted an Israeli attack on Iran, described his work and background to Danny Jones. Jiang said he teaches philosophy and geopolitics at a private Beijing school that prepares wealthy students for U.S. universities, and that he structured a 2024 class around three predictions: Trump winning a second term, a U.S. war with Iran, and the United States losing that war.

The first half of the conversation covered China. Jiang argued that Chinese schooling treats mathematics stars the way American schools treat football stars, that the one-child policy produced widespread female infanticide and a gender imbalance of roughly 50 million, that Chinese elites launder money into U.S. real estate through Mexican cartels, and that China functions as a "plantation economy" run by an overseas "red nobility" that prefers control to innovation. He characterized Xi Jinping as a figurehead strongman with little real power and no foreign-policy strategy, predicted eventual peaceful reunification of Taiwan and China over ten to twenty years, and said Japan — not the United States — is the main obstacle, which is why Tokyo is building the Quad alliance.

The second half set out Jiang's thesis that the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and its late leader, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, sit behind much of American and Israeli policy. He traced connections from Louis Brandeis and Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson through the 1996 Clean Break memo, Sheldon Adelson's financing of Netanyahu and Trump, the Kushner family, and Mark Zuckerberg's reported family link to Schneerson, while conceding some of this could be coincidence and that one key Zuckerberg source could not be corroborated on air. Jiang explained a Kabbalistic eschatology requiring Greater Israel, the return and repentance of the diaspora, and a Third Temple, and linked it to the red heifers shipped to Israel, the Iran war, and Gog and Magog. He also described the Sabbatean-Frankist tradition of "redemption through sin" and connected it to Jeffrey Epstein, Robert Maxwell and Leslie Wexner.

Jiang closed with forecasts: a rough decade ahead, a collapse of the Japanese yen carry trade and bursting AI and private-credit bubbles, midterms that disappoint Democrats, and Trump running in 2028, which he said would be a breaking point producing street violence. Jones repeatedly pushed back and asked for sourcing, and both men said they hoped Jiang was wrong.

Chapters

  1. 1:15

    A Chinese teacher's improbable YouTube fame

    Jiang jokes about being a CCP spy, explains his Beijing private-school teaching job, his Yale background, and the three predictions that structured his 2024 history class.

  2. 6:13

    Chinese education, math and rote memorization

    Jiang disputes Malcolm Gladwell's linguistic explanation for Chinese math ability and describes a system that treats math prodigies like football stars.

  3. 11:00

    Going viral, VPNs and WeChat

    Jiang recounts the video on American decline that made him viral, how he posts to YouTube from China via VPN, and how WeChat monitors daily life.

  4. 20:38

    One-child policy, infanticide and raising kids

    Jiang explains the origins and consequences of the one-child policy, including infanticide and a 50-million gender imbalance, and compares raising children in China and the U.S.

  5. 30:56

    Food, Foxconn and rare earths

    Jiang criticizes American food, describes Foxconn factories as dystopian prison cities, and says China's rare-earth monopoly rests on environmental and human sacrifice.

  6. 36:46

    Cartels, money laundering and Jack Ma

    Jiang details how Chinese millionaires use Mexican cartel cash to buy U.S. real estate and describes the sidelining of Jack Ma.

  7. 43:17

    How China is actually run

    Jiang lays out his 'plantation economy' theory of the red nobility, the technocrats, and why Xi Jinping was brought in to choose control over innovation.

  8. 50:28

    The creative class and COVID

    Jiang argues that globally competitive economies need a liberal creative class, and that China's COVID policy showed it chose control over growth.

  9. 58:40

    Xi's weakness, Taiwan and Japan's Quad

    Jiang argues Xi has no strategy, predicts peaceful Taiwan reunification over 10-20 years, and explains why Japan would block it and is building the Quad.

  10. 1:19:33

    The Clean Break memo and Scoop Jackson

    Jiang traces the 1996 Clean Break memo through Richard Perle and Douglas Feith back to Senator Henry Jackson and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.

  11. 1:29:50

    Schneerson, Brandeis and the rise of Chabad

    Jiang recounts how Louis Brandeis arranged the Schneerson family's rescue from Warsaw and how Chabad-Lubavitch built wealth and numbers in Brooklyn.

  12. 1:44:28

    Netanyahu, Adelson and Zuckerberg

    Jiang plays clips of Netanyahu and the Adelsons seeking the Rebbe's blessing and argues Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook origins are tied to Chabad, a claim the show fails to corroborate.

  13. 2:14:22

    Kabbalah, the Holocaust and the Third Temple

    Jiang explains Kabbalistic cosmology and an extreme faction's view that Jewish suffering forces repentance, requiring Greater Israel, diaspora return, and a rebuilt Temple.

  14. 2:28:48

    Red heifers, Hegseth and Natalie Harp

    Jiang points to genetically engineered red heifers in Israel, plays a Hegseth clip about the Temple Mount, and describes Christian Zionists around Trump.

  15. 2:39:08

    Iran, Gog and Magog, and merging wars

    Jiang argues both sides of the Iran war have become eschatological and forecasts the Ukraine and Iran conflicts merging via the Caspian.

Key points

What was said, by whom, with the exact words. Timestamps jump to the moment.

  • Linked moment · 6:13Skip to 6:13 using a listen link in the info box.

    Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang rejects Malcolm Gladwell's linguistic theory and argues Chinese math ability comes from a system that privileges math students the way American schools privilege athletes.

    “It's a system that prioritizes math above everything else. So our math students are like football stars in high school”

    Listen from 7:23 · Chinese education system

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang claims surveillance in the United States is more sophisticated than in China because he cannot disable location tracking on his American iPhone.

    “I will say that the surveillance in the United States, it is much more sophisticated than in China”

    Listen from 15:55 · WeChat

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang says rural preference for sons under the one-child policy drove widespread infanticide and left China with 50 million more boys than girls.

    “And now there's a 50 million gender imbalance in China. There are 50 million more boys than there are girls in China”

    Listen from 24:40 · One-child policy

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang describes Foxconn's Apple assembly complexes as prison-like dystopian cities where workers are treated as human cattle.

    “And these are cities. These are like huge dystopian cities of like hundreds of thousands of workers. And they're treated like cattle”

    Listen from 34:14 · Foxconn

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang argues wealthy Chinese circumvent capital controls by borrowing cartel cash for U.S. real estate and repaying it through inflated trade invoices.

    “the Mexican cartel has boatloads of U.S. cash, right? So you borrow from the cartel, like maybe $2 million, and they buy you a house in Flushing, Queens, New York”

    Listen from 38:42 · Money laundering and Mexican cartels

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang characterizes China as a plantation economy whose true stakeholders, the red nobility, largely live abroad.

    “So the people who run China are not actually in China, they're actually in the United States”

    Listen from 45:07 · Chinese education system

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang argues China's leadership deliberately chose control over innovation during COVID even at the cost of imploding its own economy.

    “And the answer is they wanted control, not innovation. It's a plantation economy. They wanted to exert control over the economy. even if it meant the entire economy collapses”

    Listen from 54:15 · Chinese education system

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang says Xi Jinping is a figurehead strongman with little real control, an emperor with no clothes, and that the system prevents him from declaring war.

    “But the problem with this is he has actually very little control over China. He's an emperor of no close”

    Listen from 58:58 · Chinese education system

  • Xueqin JiangPrediction · due Dec 2046

    Jiang predicts Taiwan and China will reunify peacefully over the next ten to twenty years through economic inducements rather than force.

    “Taiwan and China will just reunify peacefully over time I'm talking over like the next 10 20 years right and so what China can do is use economic carrots to lure Taiwan back”

    Listen from 1:06:32 · Cross-Strait relations

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang argues Japan, not the U.S., is the real obstacle to reunification because a Chinese-controlled Taiwan could cut Japan off from Southeast Asian resources.

    “So what would happen is if Taiwan and China were to reunify, China could use Taiwan to embargo Japan from Southeast Asia”

    Listen from 1:13:14 · Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang says the 1996 Clean Break memo urged Netanyahu to abandon the two-state approach in favor of dominance and regime change in Iraq and Syria.

    “So this memo calls for regime change in Iraq as well as Syria”

    Listen from 1:22:03 · Clean Break memo

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang recounts that Louis Brandeis arranged for half-Jewish Nazi soldiers to extract the Schneerson family from Warsaw and bring them to Brooklyn.

    “so you've got you got these nazis protecting these jews and then they shipped them to brooklyn and and this is where they built their about louisville movement”

    Listen from 1:39:00 · Chabad-Lubavitch

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang argues Mark Zuckerberg's success cannot be explained by luck and points to his family's reported blessing from Rebbe Schneerson and Harvard Chabad connections.

    “So the idea that Mark Zuckerberg just got lucky doesn't hold water”

    Listen from 2:04:05 · Facebook

  • Danny Jones

    Jones pushes back on the Zuckerberg-Schneerson story, noting it rests on a single online source and should be scrutinized more carefully.

    “Well, it's just weird because it's the only article on the entire internet that references it”

    Listen from 2:12:43 · Facebook

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang says an extreme Kabbalist faction including Schneerson interprets the Holocaust as God's punishment of Jews for assimilating rather than returning to Israel.

    “They believe was the jews who forced the holocaust the jews are at fault for the holocaust because if you read the bible every time bad things happen to the jews it's because the jews disobey god”

    Listen from 2:22:01 · Kabbalah

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang lists three preconditions that this faction believes must occur: Greater Israel, a catastrophe driving diaspora return and repentance, and the Third Temple replacing the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

    “And number three is the building of the third temple, which means the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, so that God can come to earth and be with the Jews again”

    Listen from 2:24:06 · Third Temple

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang cites the 2002 Millennium Challenge war game as showing the U.S. could not defeat Iran because of asymmetrical drone warfare against carriers.

    “they war game a war with Iran. And the conclusion was the United States could not possibly defeat Iran in a war”

    Listen from 2:51:18 · Millennium Challenge 2002

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang argues the Iran war is now unstoppable because leaderships on both sides have become eschatological after moderates were killed.

    “This war is almost unstoppable at this point because what's happened is both sides have become eschatological”

    Listen from 2:54:18 · United States war with Iran

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang predicts loss of Middle East oil will force Japan to end the yen carry trade and stop buying U.S. Treasuries, bursting the AI and private credit bubbles.

    “And it's possible that this will burst two bubbles, the AI bubble and the private credit bubble in the United States. And this would cause tremendous contagion throughout the United States. Basically, it would cause a white color apocalypse”

    Listen from 3:02:50 · Japanese yen carry trade

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang speculates Maduro is a CIA asset who will testify that Smartmatic machines were rigged, giving Trump a pretext for a third term.

    “So I think there's a secret deal between Maduro and Trump. And Maduro is going to testify today. that the Smartmatic machines are rigged”

    Listen from 3:12:31 · 2020 United States presidential election

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang says he believes both parties cheat in elections and that in 2020 the Democrats simply cheated more effectively.

    “So I think like everyone cheats. I think every election there's a lot of cheating. And in 2020, the Democrats cheated better than the Republicans”

    Listen from 3:18:56 · 2020 United States presidential election

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang argues the Butler shooting was a staged Leviticus-style anointing ritual, citing the wounded right ear and removed left shoe.

    “So I think that's what happened at Butler. I think it was a staged event in order to anoint Trump for the special mission ahead of him”

    Listen from 3:20:39 · Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang explains the Sabbatean-Frankist doctrine of redemption through sin as a form of accelerationism intended to force God's intervention.

    “But number two is they also believe in something called redemption by sin. And redemption by sin is the idea that we've been discussing, which is the idea of accelerationism”

    Listen from 3:29:20 · Sabbatean Frankism

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang argues Epstein was groomed as a successor to Robert Maxwell, a transnational agent of Zionist influence, and points to 1991 as the pivotal year.

    “Epstein is a new Robert Maxwell and he is this transnational agent of zionist influence”

    Listen from 3:42:59 · Jeffrey Epstein

  • Xueqin Jiang

    Jiang compares today's permissive online speech environment to Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign, suggesting dissenters are being catalogued for later action.

    “I think they're letting us speak because they want to know how much traction these views get and who is actually commenting, liking this video”

    Listen from 3:54:15 · Chabad-Lubavitch

  • Xueqin JiangPrediction · due Nov 2026

    Jiang predicts a decade of economic collapse and says the midterms will disappoint Democrats hoping to constrain Trump's war powers.

    “I think we're in for a rough 10 years. I think the global economy collapses. I think the US economy collapses. I think the midterms will not turn out the way people expect”

    Listen from 3:56:44 · 2026 United States midterm elections

  • Xueqin JiangPrediction · due Nov 2028

    Jiang predicts Trump will run in 2028 and that a third term would be a breaking point producing open rebellion and street violence in Democratic cities.

    “I also think Trump will run in 2028 and there'll be a lot of cheating in 2028”

    Listen from 3:58:29 · 2020 United States presidential election

People

In the conversation

  • Danny JonesAmerican podcaster and host of the Danny Jones Podcast
  • Xueqin JiangBeijing-based teacher and YouTuber behind the channel Predictive History, covering philosophy, geopolitics and forecasting

Discussed

  • Menachem Mendel SchneersonSeventh Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, died 1994
  • Xi JinpingGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and paramount leader of China
  • Benjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister of Israel
  • Donald TrumpPresident of the United States whose conduct of the Iran war is the episode's main subject
  • Sheldon AdelsonLate American casino magnate and major political donor to Netanyahu and Trump
  • Jared KushnerBusinessman and Trump's son-in-law, adviser in the first Trump administration
  • Mark ZuckerbergCo-founder of Facebook
  • Louis BrandeisU.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent American Zionist who died in 1941
  • Henry M. JacksonU.S. Senator from Washington known as 'Scoop' who sponsored the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
  • Mao ZedongFounding leader of the People's Republic of China
  • Deng XiaopingChinese paramount leader who introduced economic reform and the one-child policy
  • Jack MaChinese entrepreneur and founder of Alibaba
  • Richard PerleAmerican neoconservative policy adviser and co-author of the Clean Break memo
  • Douglas FeithAmerican official and co-author of the Clean Break memo
  • Sabbatai Zevi17th-century Jewish mystic who proclaimed himself the Messiah and converted to Islam
  • Jacob Frank18th-century Jewish religious leader who founded Frankism
  • Leslie WexnerAmerican billionaire retailer who gave Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney in 1991
  • Robert MaxwellBritish publishing magnate alleged to have worked for multiple intelligence services
  • Ghislaine MaxwellDaughter of Robert Maxwell and associate of Jeffrey Epstein
  • Natalie HarpClose Trump aide described by Jiang as writing Trump's social media posts
  • Pete HegsethU.S. Secretary of Defense overseeing the Iran campaign
  • Wesley ClarkRetired U.S. Army general who described a post-9/11 plan to attack seven countries
  • Laura LoomerAmerican right-wing activist said to have met Ukraine's Chabad chief rabbi
  • Nicolás MaduroPresident of Venezuela, described by Jiang as imprisoned in New York
  • Bernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermont who discussed mail-in ballots before the 2020 election
  • Malcolm GladwellAuthor of Outliers, whose theory about Chinese numerals Jiang disputes
  • Richard FloridaUrban theorist and author of The Rise of the Creative Class
  • Cheng Li-wunLeader of Taiwan's Kuomintang who met Xi Jinping
  • Alan DershowitzLawyer described as faculty adviser to Harvard Chabad
  • Larry SummersFormer Harvard president described as patron of Harvard Chabad
  • Sheryl SandbergFormer Facebook chief operating officer
  • Vladimir PutinPresident of Russia
  • Volodymyr ZelenskyyPresident of Ukraine
  • Howard LutnickCantor Fitzgerald executive who was absent from the World Trade Center on 9/11

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Professor Jiang (Xueqin Jiang) is a teacher in China who has a popular YouTube channel @PredictiveHistory that covers philosophy, politics, education, and geopolitical forecasting. SPONSORS https://hims.com/danny - Get simple online access to personalized & affordable care for hair loss, ED, weight loss, and more. https://quo.com/danny - Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months. https://irestore.com/djp - Use code DJP to unlock your best hair, skin, & body plus HUGE savings. https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/zralgyl0 - Download Cash App today. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS Professor Jiang's channel: @PredictiveHistory Substack: https://substack.com/@predictivehistory *NEW* DJP MERCH https://dannyjonespodcast.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Danny confronts Jiang on being CCP spy 05:06 - Why Chinese people are so good at math 10:15 - The video that made Professor Jiang viral 13:44 - WeChat, the Chinese super-app 17:31 - Misconceptions about life in China 19:35 - China's one-child policy 25:40 - Raising kids in U.S. vs. China 29:49 - American food is poisonous 32:00 - Apple's Chinese factories are like prisons 35:38 - Chinese launders money for Mexican cartels 42:09 - How Xi Jinping and the CCP came to power 49:10 - Importance of the "Creative Class" in a global economy 56:02 - The most sensitive topic in China right now 57:37 - Xi Jinping is losing control of China 01:05:27 - The China-Taiwan dilemma 01:14:34 - Japan's Quad alliance 01:17:02 - China is in a lot of danger 01:18:38 - The Chabad-Lubavitch movement 01:19:27 - The Clean Break Memo 01:24:21 - The Jackson-Vanik amendment 01:28:43 - Henry "Scoop" Jackson & Rebbe Schneerson 01:35:36 - Most powerful Zionist in American history 01:43:37 - Rebbe Schneerson meets Netanyahu 01:50:46 - How Mark Zucker…

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