Chinese billionaires are using surrogates around the world to build massive family dynasties—and the results are disturbing. From U.S.-born surrogate babies to trafficking scandals in Eastern Europe, this episode exposes how China’s elites are exploiting women, loopholes in the law, and global fertility markets to get what they want.
Chinese elites are spreading their seed
around the world. The results are pretty
messed up. Welcome to China Uncensored.
I'm Chris Chapel. It's almost Christmas
and it's not too late to buy gifts not
made in China. Pick up a copy of my
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in the US of A. Link is below. So, in
the CCP's China, if you're rich enough,
you can buy almost anything. Human
breast milk to drink? Sure, why not? Why
let Homelander have all the fun? Human
organs? Definitely. The CCP's got you
covered. You just might need to travel
to Shinjiang to get them. But there's
one thing in China that's pretty hard to
buy, even with all the money in the
world, and that's a womb for your
babies.
For that, Chinese elites turn to the US
to get what they want. That's right.
Chinese billionaires are having dozens
of US-born babies via surrogate. A woman
who rents out her womb to just date a
baby that doesn't belong to her and
after delivery gives the baby to its
biological parent. And it's gotten
pretty weird. For example, this lovely
Chinese American couple is Guo Jun Shuen
and Sylvia Jang. They started a company
out of their home in Los Angeles to
match hopeful parents with surrogates.
only as far as anyone can tell. The only
people they ended up matching the
surrogates with were themselves,
eventually leading local police
investigating potential child abuse of
an infant to find that their LA mansion
was filled with surrogate children.
In total, the police discovered 22
children, all claimed by the LA couple
and most between the ages of 1 and three
and with birth certificate that showed
they were born all over the country. But
22 children,
that's just child's play. Meet Shu,
founder of Chinese video game company Di
Network. He's a social media butterfly,
but a real life recluse, a mega
billionaire, and according to his ex,
has fathered 300 kids using surrogacy.
Although his company denies this, they
say it's merely only a little over a
hundred children.
That's a lot of kids.
According to Nathan Jang, the founder
and CEO of IVFUSA, a company that has
historically catered to wealthy Chinese
who wanted to circumvent China's one
child policy using surrogacy in the
United States. Elon Musk with his 14
children is becoming a role model now
that the one child policy is gone. These
days, he said, clients are commissioning
dozens or even hundreds of USborn babies
with the goal of forging an unstoppable
family dynasty.
But Musk isn't just inspiration.
According to Waybo accounts linked to
Shu, Shu hopes his children will one day
marry the descendants of Elon Musk. On
behalf of humanity, all I can say is
yuck.
He specifically wants boys because
according to him, boys are superior to
girls. If you think that's sexist, well,
yeah. But don't worry, China's got more
female positive elites. According to the
Wall Street Journal, the president and
CEO of XJ International Holdings, Wang
Hui Wu, purchased dozens of eggs from
models, a finance PhD, and a musician at
a cost of between $6,000 and $7,500 each
with the intention of putting them into
surrogates. Unlike Shu, Wong preferred
girls and hoped they would grow up to
marry world leaders.
Yep. farmraised freerange artisian honey
traps.
So why are these Chinese elites doing
this? Well, the issue is that surrogacy
is illegal in China and the CCP has been
cracking down on it for years. That's
why Chinese couples in search of
surrogates for whatever reason look
outside of China. The US is a very
popular destination. According to
researchers at Emory University, between
2014 and 2020, Chinese couples made up
41% of foreign surrogacies in the US.
Allegedly, former Chinese ambassador to
the USQ Ching Gan, who was sacked back
in 2023 for having an extrammarital
affair, was among them. He reportedly
had a surrogate child in the US with TV
presenter Fu Xiao Tien shortly after
both of them disappeared from the public
eye. But while the US is a hot
destination for Chinese people looking
for surrogates, it isn't the only
destination. After all, having a
surrogate child with Western women is
really expensive. In the US, it can cost
anywhere between $120,000
and a4 million.
So, for a cheaper option, many Chinese
people turn to Southeast Asia, Central
Asia, and Eastern Europe. Georgia in
particular is a popular surrogacy spot.
Interesting. Didn't see that on Google's
things to do in Georgia list. Surrogacy
boomed there after 2022 when the war in
Ukraine started and after Russia banned
surrogacies for foreigners. Georgia's so
popular that hashtags like #
Georgiaorgab trended on Chinese social
media. And the Chinese have become the
largest group of foreigners in Georgia
for surrogacy. Just like in the US, one
account on Xiao Hong Shu, also known as
Red Note, warned Chinese tourists
traveling back to China that their
5-hour long return flight from Georgia
to Shinjang is likely to be crowded with
crying newborn babies. Though, that's
not even in the top five worst forms of
torture in Shinjang. Obviously, there
are some ethically questionable things
going on here. Surrogacy is intended to
help give couples struggling with
infertility a chance to have a baby, not
to be an industry for wealthy Chinese
businessmen hoping to emulate Genghask
Khan. On top of that, the fact that
Chinese elites are largely turning to
the US for their surrogates raises other
questions about the 14th Amendment,
which I covered 12 years ago. I'm
getting old. I guess the CCP's China
doesn't change. And there are other
issues, too. For example, is it okay to
use the most economically disadvantaged
people as womb farms? Or what about the
disabled? Apparently, those kinds of
women aren't off the table in China. I
haven't seen Handmaid's Tail, but if
they're not using this as a story line,
then how can you call yourself a
dystopian future story if it isn't even
as dark as the present?
And what happens if the couple decides
to abandon the surrogate babies? In
2021, Chinese actress Jung Shuang
sparked a lot of outrage when she
reportedly decided to abandon two babies
while two surrogate mothers in the US
were pregnant with them. A woman being a
deadbeat dad didn't realize that was a
glass ceiling that needed to be broken.
In this case, her ex-boyfriend claimed
them and took care of them. But in
another case, the Chinese state-run
media, The Paper, did a video report on
how two biological parents canled their
surrogacy agreement with the surrogate
mother after they found out she had
syphilis. As a result, the
poverty-stricken surrogate mother ended
up having the baby herself, but could
not afford her bills and sold the baby's
birth certificate, which yes, is a thing
in China. Glad to see at least one part
of their economy is thriving. The
biological parents refused to take
responsibility for the girl, making the
girl into a
black child or heighta, a child without
papers or any household registration,
which in turn means that the girl can't
go to school or get health care in
China. The profitable surrogacy industry
is also attracting a lot of Chinese
criminal networks. And these groups are
doing some pretty messed up things,
especially in surrogacy hotspots like
Georgia. One famous case that drew
attention involved a Chinese-run company
called Baby Cam Medical Consulting
Group. It was registered in Georgia as
recently as 2024. According to Radio
Free Europe, a Thai woman called Na saw
a Facebook advertisement promising work
as a surrogate mother in Georgia. The ad
promise to pay all travel costs and
offer up to $17,000.
Sounds promising, but after hearing what
happens next, you want to watch
Handmaid's Tail just to cheer up. Upon
landing in Georgia's capital, Na had her
passport confiscated and ended up
trapped in a house with over a hundred
other women and threatened with arrest
if they tried to return to Thailand.
Turns out Na and the other women weren't
there to be surrogate mothers. According
to Thailand's police force, Baby Cam
Medical Consulting Group was a Chinese
criminal syndicate's egg harvesting
scheme that was stealing eggs once a
month to give other women for IVF
procedures.
In another case, the New York Times
described the experience of a
Chinese-run surrogacy operation in
Georgia as a nightmare. According to the
trafficked Thai women in that case,
their time in Georgia was worse than
their previous experience working as
trafficked prostitutes in Bahrain, which
has to be the darkest game of would you
rather of all time. As prostitutes, they
were able to get paid and knew what they
were getting into. But in Georgia, the
women were reportedly forced to stay in
their building, fight over limited food,
and take unknown medications without pay
for months. And if they left, then they
would have their fingers chopped off,
which I guess is arguably better than
being the victim of the CCP's organ
harvesting. But yeah, there are a lot of
issues with surrogacy, some of which
have spurred calls for tighter
regulations in the US. But this might be
a problem with an expiration date since
China has reportedly developed the first
ever pregnancy robot
because that's not going to cause any
problems at all. What do you think?
Should the US tighten regulation on
surrogacy? Leave your comments below and
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