More of This, People! CBS Spotlights Chinese Billionaire Exploiting Surrogacy

While the left and their intolerant, single-party media writers are wailing over a season premiere of 60 Minutes that didn’t look all that different from past incarnations, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings aired a spellbinding CBS News investigation published online Sunday showing rampant abuse of the U.S. surrogacy system by Chinese billionaires to create dozens of babies with dual citizenship.

Communist Chinese exploiting loopholes? Meant for families struggling to conceive? For possible national security gains? What could possibly go wrong! This takes the discussion of “anchor babies” from illegal immigrants to a whole other, more terrifying place.

Co-host Norah O’Donnell had the setup to the story from politics and legal reporter Katrina Kaufman:

[W]e’re going to begin this hour with a CBS News investigation into commercial surrogacy, where a woman carries and gives birth for someone else, in exchange for payment. While surrogacy can help build families, our investigation found some cases that raise serious concerns about whether the system has enough safeguards for the surrogate mothers and the children

Kaufman told the first part of the story through the lens of a surrogate she dubbed “Judy,” whose identity they chose to “obscur[e]...as she speaks out for the first time about an experience she says has left her deeply conflicted.”

Through tears, “Judy” told Kaufman she’s “worrie[d]” and “upset” that her surrogacy agency failed to “protect” her and ensure she was matched “with people with good intentions.”

Kaufman explained “Judy” had said yes to the $65,000 payout to aid “a single dad,” but she quickly learned “this single dad was also having children with 20 other surrogates.”

Sure enough, this “single dad” is “Chinese billionaire Xu Bo, a video game executive,” who “recently posted this photo on social media showing more than 100 children” and already had “a dozen” children “born” to him “through surrogates in the U.S.”

Kaufman explained how this form of creating anchor-babies is legal: “The U.S. is the only developed country where commercial surrogacy is widely legal, but a year-long CBS News investigation found cases that, while not illegal, raise questions about how loopholes in the surrogacy industry are being exploited.”

Her piece then flashed back to a July 2025 raid covered on CBS News 24/7 by anchor Elizabeth Cook, who said law enforcement raided a California home with “21 children, most born via surrogates” and arrested two Chinese nationals, Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan.

Kaufman tracked down one of the surrogates they used (click “expand”):

KAUFMAN: We tracked down 17 of their surrogates, including Maria Castellanos. [TO CASTELLANOS] What is that like to even process?

MARIA CASTELLANOS: I was in shock.

KAUFMAN [TO CASTELLANOS]: Who were you angry with?

CASTELLANOS: Everybody that was involved, everybody.

KAUFMAN: Zhang and Xuan have denied any wrongdoing, and their case is under investigation. The children born through surrogates? They remain in state care.

“Xu Bo did not respond to our interview requests. He has previously said that more children bring more blessing,” she concluded, citing Xu Bo’s ominous defense of creating a small army of children.

Back live, O’Donnell was flabbergasted: “But this is really interesting. Why are these Chinese billionaires having up to 100 babies here in the United States? What’s the goal?”

Refusing to acknowledge the geopolitical concerns or a hostile foreign actor seeking to breed dual citizens for possibly nefarious aims, O’Donnell and now Kaufman danced around it (click “expand”):

KAUFMAN: Norah, that is the question that we’ve been looking into. The reality is that surrogacy is not legal in China, so they cannot do it there. Geographically, it makes sense for them to come to California, which has really become the hotbed for all of this. And out of — because of foreigners —

O’DONNELL: Because of no regulations or limited regulations? 

KAUFMAN: — limited regulations, a lot of fertility clinics. Yeah, when it comes to regulations, the only place where an agency, for example, has to be licensed is New York. Across the country, a lawyer told us, basically, with $300 and an LLC, someone can start a surrogacy agency.

Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers was also astonished: “[T]hat’s the key — right — that the United States is the only developed country where commercial surrogacy is legal. All other countries don’t have that. So, surrogacy is an important facet of people struggling with fertility issues. But when you make it a business, you get people that can exploit the loophole like that.”

Kaufman reiterated her team’s year-long probe “look[ed] specifically into people who were using multiple surrogates in a short period of time to have a lot of children, and through whistleblowers, we received documents where we saw the same names appearing over and over again,” with one case showing someone seeking 25 children.

Kaufman closed in part with the obvious that “there are real ethical and moral questions here.” O’Donnell replied, “You should keep digging on this because I really want to know why do these billionaires want that many children?...What are they planning to do with these children?”

Duthiers also pleaded ignorance: “What’s the angle?”

Only in the final seconds was there some semblance of the Trojan horse reality, exploiting children of God for ill intent:

KAUFMAN: When it comes to Bo, he did also say that he is striving for the long-term development of the Chinese nation.

DUTHIERS: Hmm.

O’DONNELL: Of Chinese babies that have American citizenship.

To see the relevant transcript from September 15, click here.