🧵 Jiang Xueqin’s classes from last year, predicting a US/Israel-Iran conflict, are doing the rounds, but I’ve been watching some of his other videos and I’m consistently surprised.
This is a high school class, at a prestigious high school in Beijing, many of whose students intend to go to university in the US.
There’s nothing in these videos that is a surprise to me, but what’s shocking is that they’re teaching actual serious geopolitics to 17 year olds to prepare them for the world.
This kind of information and analysis is something that is not easily accessible in the west, given the extreme levels of media propaganda that obscures it today. The fact that the actual elected leaders of some western counties don’t seem to understand this basic stuff, to their own detriment, is a testament to how badly things are.
It took me years of listening to different sides, watching global events closely, and reflecting on it all, to figure out how to understand geopolitics. Even though this kind of analysis is generally accepted in IR academia, even there it is under serious onslaught by both leftist and neocon propaganda.
I want to post a few clips from his class about Russia’s strategic position, which touches on China, Taiwan, Israel, Iran, the EU, and then ends up in a detailed historical analysis of the geopolitics and geoeconomics of WW2.
In the first clip, he outlines an accurate synopsis of Putin’s strategy with regard to Ukraine, and the attrition of NATO cash and materiel:
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И это препадают китайцам в Китае, т.е. китайцы обладают вполне близкой к объективности картиной мира.