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.
Professor Jiang appears on the Piers Morgan show. Jiang blasted Los Angeles and apologized to his home country after witnessing what he described as a “dystopian” nightmare. YouTube/Piers Morgan Uncensored
“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.
Piers Morgan arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the BBC One current affairs program “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg” on Sunday, June 28, 2026, in London. (PA Images) PA Images via Getty Images
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 said appeared to be on drugs.
“It just seems to me absurd that in the wealthiest country in the history of humanity, you could have this desperate form of poverty,” Jiang said.
Professor Jiang appears on the Piers Morgan show alongside other guests. YouTube/Piers Morgan Uncensored
He argued that rather than focusing on domestic problems such as inequality and corruption, the United States is too focused on conflicts abroad.
“I’m much more worried about internal tension, internal decay than I am about nuclear warfare or biological warfare,” Jiang said.
Jiang said he noticed a similar contrast while staying at a luxury hotel in Santa Monica.
“I’m literally living with real-life Ken and Barbie dolls, just beautiful people,” he said. “In the evening, I go out and it’s all just homeless people.”
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He said a homeless man who appeared to be mentally ill was outside his hotel room shouting and cursing throughout the night, while the hotel provided guests with earbuds.
“This is a world we’re living in, where society is suffering from internal decay,” Jiang said. “And rather than confront the issue, we just, you know, put on our earbuds and put our head in the sand and live in our fortresses.”
Jiang blamed what he saw in part on what he called the “extreme individualism of the Western world,” contrasting it with China’s focus on family and community.
Homeless tents are seen on 5th and Central Ave in Skid Row, Los Angeles, California. Andy Johnstone for CA Post
“Here in the United States, everyone is left to fend for himself,” Jiang said. “So, if you make one mistake, you know, maybe you’re doing well, but you get sick and the health care bill overwhelms you. You go bankrupt. Then you’re on the streets.”
“It is atrocious to think that in the wealthiest society in the world, people, millions of people, are just being left behind,” he added.
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