Audaciously bragging about taking advantage of our systems' weaknesses while inspiring other overly-wealthy nerds everywhere.
Posted on 12/16/2025 5:12:21 AM PST by Red Badger
Inside a closed Los Angeles courtroom, something wasn’t right.
Clerks working for family court Judge Amy Pellman were reviewing routine surrogacy petitions when they spotted an unusual pattern: the same name, again and again.
A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates.
When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing. The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking through an interpreter. He said he hoped to have 20 or so U.S.-born children through surrogacy—boys, because they’re superior to girls—to one day take over his business.
Several of his kids were being raised by nannies in nearby Irvine as they awaited paperwork to travel to China. He hadn’t yet met them, he told the judge, because work had been busy.
Pellman was alarmed, according to the people who attended the hearing. Surrogacy was a tool to help people build families, but what Xu was describing didn’t seem like parenting, the people said.
The judge denied his request for parentage—normally quickly approved for the intended parents of a baby born through surrogacy, experts say. The decision left the children he’d paid for to be born in legal limbo.
The court declined to comment on Xu’s case.
Xu, an online megaposter but real-life recluse, has rarely spoken with reporters and hasn’t been photographed in public for nearly a decade.
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No other country gives birth citizenship. Constitution was written over 200 years ago. Things are different now.
200-500 years ago Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Netherlands and other European countries emptied their prisons by sending them to the New World and other places to work off their sentences.
It should come as no great surprise that their descendants are now running their respective former colonies...............
The 14th amendment was not adopted to benefit freed slaves, not to create a birth tourism industry.
Fixed it.
Audaciously bragging about taking advantage of our systems' weaknesses while inspiring other overly-wealthy nerds everywhere.
BINGO
If all he wants is a plethora of descendants, then that is fairly innocuous.
If he wants a Chinese dynasty to conquer the US and the West then I have a problem with that..............
Agree! Time to end it! Long past time.
We should get rid of birthright citizenship, but this is a separate problem. The mothers, for the most part, are american citizens. So the kids are going to be citizens whether we get rid of birthright citizenship or not.
What about Chinese tourist trade with focus on pregnant women? What about Mexicans during visit to US dropping a child and then get green card themselves?
Yeah, what about it? Nothing to do with this article. Try to maintain your focus.
Chinese are in focus in the article.
It is about Chinese using American surrogates. It is not about anchor babies. If you have a point make it, but think about whether you are doing it in the right thread.
Repeal the 19th. As much as I love women, they have no business in leadership positions or voting.
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