Chinese billionaire Xu Bo is revealed to have fathered 100β300 children through American surrogates, granting them U.S. citizenship at birth.
The background on this story and guy is nuts!
Xu Bo dropped out of junior high in Wuhan, started in NetEase customer service, then helped design Fantasy Westward Journey.
He walked out, founded Duoyi Network, and became a gaming billionaire who owns almost the entire company.
Then he started building a family like a product pipeline.
He calls himself βChinaβs first father.β
His line was βhaving more children solves everything.β
He wanted 50 βhigh-quality sons.β
He talked about his kids marrying Elon Muskβs kids.
His ex says 300 children.
His company said no, βonly a little over 100,β and that just 12 were born in the U.S. through surrogacy.
In 2023, a Los Angeles judge noticed the same name on petition after petition.
Xu appeared by video from China.
He said he wanted about 20 U.S.-born boys to take over the business.
He said he preferred boys. He also said he hadnβt met some of the kids yet because work was busy. They were with nannies in Irvine.
Later he posted a photo of about 100 children sitting in rows.
A U.S. surrogate who thought she was carrying for a single dad saw it and said he was βcreating an army.β
How he did it is not a secret loophole. Itβs the law as written.
If a baby is born on U.S. soil, the 14th Amendment makes that baby a citizen.
The parents can be Chinese. They can be billionaires. They donβt even have to live here.
Commercial surrogacy is legal in California.
You hire an agency, use IVF, pay a surrogate, get a parentage order, and the child is born American.
There is no federal limit on how many times you can do this.
China bans the practice at home, so the money just moves to states that allow it. #China #USA