Donald Trump's 'holy war' with Iran will spiral into a global crisis that could destroy Europe and shatter America's alliances within a decade, according to Beijing‑based academic Jiang Xueqin, the commentator nicknamed 'China's Nostradamus' by his online followers. His forecast is based on historical analysis and speculative reasoning rather than verified data and has gained viral attention online amid rising US‑Iran tensions.
Jiang has built a small but fervent international audience by claiming to fuse close reading of history with game theory to anticipate geopolitical shocks. In the material shared by his supporters, he is credited with predicting Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 US election and warning that a Trump return to the White House would make a US–Iran war 'very likely.' Both of those developments, they say, have now come to pass, and Jiang has moved on to a darker set of forecasts about how that conflict unfolds.
