Exclusive | Meet the US Army vet running a California baby factory for Chinese nationals to have American kids

Wealthy Chinese couples are implanting their embryos into American women so their children can be born as US citizens, The Post has learned.The service is provided by a surrogacy agency, Patriot Conceptions, which operates between China and the US and has been accused of hiding details of who the biological parents are from surrogates.Women who carry babies for the agency are recruited informally through social media and collect between $60,000 and $120,000 dollars for their services.The children are then swept off by their parents to be raised in China, where it is seen as a status symbol among the wealthy to have a child able to claim US citizenship.Incredibly, such a service is completely legal, thanks to free-wheeling surrogacy laws and liberal interpretations of the birthright citizenship clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court.Patriot Conceptions is run by a high-energy US Army vet named Haotian Bai—who founded the international surrogacy agency and last year received a prestigious fellowship from top Republican think tank, which describes him as a “pioneering entrepreneur in the third-party reproduction” sector.Bai’s Irvine, Calif.-based Patriot Conceptions grabbed headlines last week when a surrogate identified as “Judy” came forward when she discovered she was carrying the child of reclusive Chinese billionaire Xu Bo, who has allegedly sired over 300 children.The surrogate only learned who the father was after being informed by CBS News.She said she had responded to an Instagram ad for Patriot Conceptions, who arranged the surrogacy.The company said it had only arranged that surrogacy on Bo’s behalf and “the surrogate deserves to have her concerns taken seriously,” according to CBS.In a 2024 profile on the US Chamber of Commerce’s website, Bai claimed his company helped thousands of parents have children via surrogacy, and 40 percent of his clients were “international.”A review of the company’s...