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A single mother in California signed a surrogacy contract believing the baby she would carry was for a lonely single dad. She asked to meet him at least five times. Every request went nowhere. Then CBS News showed her the leaked paperwork. The intended father is Xu Bo, a Chinese video-game billionaire whose own company says he has "a little over 100" children born through American surrogates. An ex-partner suing him for custody puts the number at 300. He says he has custody of 12 born in the U.S. But the numbers are not even the most disturbing part. According to the Wall Street Journal, Xu told a Los Angeles family court in 2023 that he wanted roughly 20 U.S.-born children to take over his billion-dollar gaming empire. Accounts linked to him on Weibo said he was seeking "50 high-quality sons." He also reportedly said that "having more children can solve all problems" and fantasized about his American-born heirs one day marrying Elon Musk's children. His company denied he ever said boys were superior to girls. Every one of those babies is a U.S. citizen the moment it is born, because America hands out citizenship by birthplace. Japan does not. A child born in Tokyo to two foreign parents gets no Japanese passport — not after one generation, not after three. Japan's obstetricians' association has refused to perform surrogacy since 2003, and its Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the woman who gives birth is the legal mother, full stop. Run Xu Bo's plan in Japan and it produces zero Japanese heirs. "It feels like he's creating an army," the surrogate told CBS. "That's crazy."