Chinese prof blasts LA on Piers Morgan show, apologizes to home country after witnessing dystopian nightmare
Chinese YouTube sensation Professor Jiang Xueqin, who hosts a channel called “Predictive History,” just went off on Los Angeles during an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” saying he was concerned about the city’s “zombie apocalypse,” after seeing so many homeless people.Jiang said he has spent the past 20 years criticizing his home country of China as “the most corrupt, the most unequal, the most materialistic society on the planet.” But after his experience in Los Angeles, he said he now wants to go back to China and apologize.“I’ve been in LA for the past three days, and I need to go back to China and make an apology to the Chinese people,” Jiang said.“Being in LA for the past three days, it really is like setting foot on a Hollywood thriller that is a sci-fi dystopia.”Jiang is a Chinese-born Canadian educator.
He’s also a geopolitical analyst and internet commentator, who has gained widespread attention for forecasts like predicting Donald Trump’s return to power and shifts in US-Iran relations.Jiang said he attended a dinner party in Pacific Palisades, where he was struck by the massive mansions and private security.“The houses there are like fortresses,” Jiang said.“These huge mansions that are guarded by private security, and which are just beautiful.
I was in a $20 million mansion, and then I looked up the hill, there was a $20 million mansion.”He said celebrities like Steven Spielberg and Adam Sandler were neighbors in the area, but described residents as isolated from each other.“None of these people know each other,” he said.“They’re all in their own, like, self-contained universes.”At the dinner party, Jiang said he was sitting next to journalist Max Blumenthal, who suggested that they visit Skid Row.“So we get in the car, we go to Skid Row in the evening, and it is really the zombie apocalypse,” Jiang said.Jiang described seeing “blocks and blocks of homeless people,” including people he...