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Jun 26, 2025 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 This guy @xueqinjiang’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:
In the next segment, @xueqinjiang discusses the role of Russia if the US is dragged into a war in Iran: to not get engaged kinetically but to threaten to extend its nuclear umbrella if the US uses tactical nukes in Iran.
At the same time, predicting DPRK will take advantage.
Oct 24, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
The kind of social credit system that people are talking about doesn't even exist in China.
Most people think of the Chinese social credit system as being "like a credit score but for your social behavior instead of finances". Except it actually is about finances.
China was late to the game on creating a financial credit score system, and by the time they got to the mid 2000s, it was a big problem for regional banks to figure out which companies and individuals were safe to borrow money.
