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SECURITY ALERT: US Army vet secretly pairs Chinese nationals with American surrogates
According to a report from the New York Post, a surrogacy agency run by a United States (US) Army veteran has been secretly helping wealthy Chinese couples have American-born babies through surrogacy, creating a potential national security issue.
U.S. Army veteran Haotian Bai is accused of running a surrogacy business catering to Chinese intended parents who are seeking to raise children who have US citizenship.
Patriot Conceptions offers both an English and Chinese version of its website, and uses a China-based app to communicate with prospective clients.
One of the clients is allegedly Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire who has allegedly fathered 100 to 300 children through surrogacy.
Issues with Chinese adults commissioning babies through U.S. surrogates have been raising concerns about a potential national security threat.
The surrogacy agency, Patriot Conceptions, was founded and is run by U.S. Army veteran Haotian Bai. The agency has been accused of hiding details regarding the genetic, intended parents of the babies from the surrogates who are paid to carry them.
Those surrogates are allegedly found through social media, and are paid between $60,000 and $120,000 dollars each for the use of their uteruses to carry babies for wealthy Chinese couples who want babies that will be considered American citizens.
One of those surrogates, "Judy," said she carried a baby for Xu after responding to an Instagram ad for Patriot Conceptions.
Patriot Conceptions is based in Irvine, California, but the children are typically taken to China to be raised after birth, according to The Post, which also reported that having an American-born child who is able to claim U.S. citizenship is "seen as a status symbol among the wealthy" in China.
In 2024, Bai said that about 40% of his surrogacy clients were "international." However, the Post reviewed Patriot Conceptions' promotional materials and found that most of those "international" clients are from China.
There are both Chinese and English versions of the company's website, and it uses WeChat, China's messaging app, to connect with clients. Intended parents travel to the U.S. on tourist visas, create their embryos, and have them implanted into American women.
They can also create embryos in China and ship them to the U.S. to be implanted in American surrogates.
The Post reported that Bai came to the U.S. in 2012 to attend Iowa State University. After graduation, he "joined the Army to get citizenship." At that time, non-citizens were allowed to join in a deal that got them fast-tracked for Green Cards.
“The Army was recruiting Chinese students to join the officers program. When he joined the military, I was proud of the guy. He seemingly did extremely well in the military,” a source told the Post about Bai.
But later, while living in Hawaii, Bai was accused of selling Hawaiian legislative internships to students from China.
Hawaii House of Representatives member Matthew LoPresti, whose office worked with sensitive national defense information, told the Post, "All of a sudden, I started getting these Chinese interns... assigned to my office somehow. I still don't really understand how that happened... I didn't ask for them or approve them."
This was around the same time frame as the 2018 false ballistic missile threat alert that was sent from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said The Post.
By 2019, Bai was running Pacific Surrogacy, another U.S.-based agency that worked with Chinese intended parents. All of the company's finances were based in China, according to The Post. Bai also ran an app called TrustUS that was created to facilitate international bank transfers.
Patriot Conceptions is not the first surrogacy agency to come under fire for marketing its 'services' specifically to Chinese citizens.
In a July press release, Expecting.Ai, which is based in Israel, announced the launch of...
[t]he largest Chinese-language surrogate database designed for intended parents seeking U.S. surrogacy options. At launch, the database includes hundreds of ready-to-match surrogate profiles from vetted U.S. surrogacy agencies across the country.... The new Chinese-language database allows intended parents from China and Chinese-speaking families worldwide to review U.S. surrogate profiles, understand key profile details, and inquire about specific surrogates directly through the Expecting.Ai platform.
In 2025, it was revealed that Xu had fathered as many as 300 children through American surrogates. When a judge noticed his name appearing on repeated parental rights applications, including for four preborn babies at the same time, she denied his applications.
But Xu was able to successfully appeal that decision. Xu's name came up as a client of Patriot Conceptions.
In addition, one surrogacy agency was deemed a "national security threat" in 2025, and is being federally investigated for the neglect of babies. Future Springs Fertility was found to have 21 babies in the home of the "intended parents," Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhange, who had created the agency. Those babies were removed from their care, but others had allegedly already been taken to China.
In Florida earlier this year, surrogate Kyla Simpson made headlines when she revealed she had given birth to triplets for a single man in China who had not come to get the children nearly two years after their births. She decided to fight for custody after two men whom she had never met showed up at her home attempting to retrieve the children for the intended father, Chen Zhou.
And, as reported by the Post (emphasis added):
Earlier this year, The Post blew the lid off thousands of Chinese women who’ve turned the Northern Mariana Islands into a birth-tourism factory—paying up to $45,000 so their babies automatically become US citizens—exploiting a loophole that has produced an estimated 1.5 million American children now being raised in China.
They will one day be able to vote and sponsor relatives through chain migration.
Babies born on American soil get American citizenship and valid American passports, giving them unrestricted access to the United States.
Legislators are currently concerned that Chinese parents are flocking to pay American women to carry their babies, who are then raised in China under the Chinese Communist Party. They can then come back to the United States later and potentially acquire sensitive government jobs.
The American fertility industry is largely unregulated, with no required background checks on intended parents. It has led to concerns of child sexual abusers creating children whom they will have full access to, and now, the lack of regulations could have caused a national security threat.
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·SECURITY ALERT: US Army vet secretly pairs Chinese nationals with American surrogates
According to a report from the New York Post, a surrogacy agency run by a United States (US) Army veteran has been secretly helping wealthy Chinese couples have American-born babies through surrogacy, creating a potential national security issue.
U.S. Army veteran Haotian Bai is accused of running a surrogacy business catering to Chinese intended parents who are seeking to raise children who have US citizenship.
Patriot Conceptions offers both an English and Chinese version of its website, and uses a China-based app to communicate with prospective clients.
One of the clients is allegedly Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire who has allegedly fathered 100 to 300 children through surrogacy.
Issues with Chinese adults commissioning babies through U.S. surrogates have been raising concerns about a potential national security threat.
The surrogacy agency, Patriot Conceptions, was founded and is run by U.S. Army veteran Haotian Bai. The agency has been accused of hiding details regarding the genetic, intended parents of the babies from the surrogates who are paid to carry them.
Those surrogates are allegedly found through social media, and are paid between $60,000 and $120,000 dollars each for the use of their uteruses to carry babies for wealthy Chinese couples who want babies that will be considered American citizens.
One of those surrogates, "Judy," said she carried a baby for Xu after responding to an Instagram ad for Patriot Conceptions.
Patriot Conceptions is based in Irvine, California, but the children are typically taken to China to be raised after birth, according to The Post, which also reported that having an American-born child who is able to claim U.S. citizenship is "seen as a status symbol among the wealthy" in China.
In 2024, Bai said that about 40% of his surrogacy clients were "international." However, the Post reviewed Patriot Conceptions' promotional materials and found that most of those "international" clients are from China.
There are both Chinese and English versions of the company's website, and it uses WeChat, China's messaging app, to connect with clients. Intended parents travel to the U.S. on tourist visas, create their embryos, and have them implanted into American women.
They can also create embryos in China and ship them to the U.S. to be implanted in American surrogates.
The Post reported that Bai came to the U.S. in 2012 to attend Iowa State University. After graduation, he "joined the Army to get citizenship." At that time, non-citizens were allowed to join in a deal that got them fast-tracked for Green Cards.
“The Army was recruiting Chinese students to join the officers program. When he joined the military, I was proud of the guy. He seemingly did extremely well in the military,” a source told the Post about Bai.
But later, while living in Hawaii, Bai was accused of selling Hawaiian legislative internships to students from China.
Hawaii House of Representatives member Matthew LoPresti, whose office worked with sensitive national defense information, told the Post, "All of a sudden, I started getting these Chinese interns... assigned to my office somehow. I still don't really understand how that happened... I didn't ask for them or approve them."
This was around the same time frame as the 2018 false ballistic missile threat alert that was sent from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said The Post.
By 2019, Bai was running Pacific Surrogacy, another U.S.-based agency that worked with Chinese intended parents. All of the company's finances were based in China, according to The Post. Bai also ran an app called TrustUS that was created to facilitate international bank transfers.
Patriot Conceptions is not the first surrogacy agency to come under fire for marketing its 'services' specifically to Chinese citizens.
In a July press release, Expecting.Ai, which is based in Israel, announced the launch of...
[t]he largest Chinese-language surrogate database designed for intended parents seeking U.S. surrogacy options. At launch, the database includes hundreds of ready-to-match surrogate profiles from vetted U.S. surrogacy agencies across the country.... The new Chinese-language database allows intended parents from China and Chinese-speaking families worldwide to review U.S. surrogate profiles, understand key profile details, and inquire about specific surrogates directly through the Expecting.Ai platform.
In 2025, it was revealed that Xu had fathered as many as 300 children through American surrogates. When a judge noticed his name appearing on repeated parental rights applications, including for four preborn babies at the same time, she denied his applications.
But Xu was able to successfully appeal that decision. Xu's name came up as a client of Patriot Conceptions.
In addition, one surrogacy agency was deemed a "national security threat" in 2025, and is being federally investigated for the neglect of babies. Future Springs Fertility was found to have 21 babies in the home of the "intended parents," Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhange, who had created the agency. Those babies were removed from their care, but others had allegedly already been taken to China.
In Florida earlier this year, surrogate Kyla Simpson made headlines when she revealed she had given birth to triplets for a single man in China who had not come to get the children nearly two years after their births. She decided to fight for custody after two men whom she had never met showed up at her home attempting to retrieve the children for the intended father, Chen Zhou.
And, as reported by the Post (emphasis added):
Earlier this year, The Post blew the lid off thousands of Chinese women who’ve turned the Northern Mariana Islands into a birth-tourism factory—paying up to $45,000 so their babies automatically become US citizens—exploiting a loophole that has produced an estimated 1.5 million American children now being raised in China.
They will one day be able to vote and sponsor relatives through chain migration.
Babies born on American soil get American citizenship and valid American passports, giving them unrestricted access to the United States.
Legislators are currently concerned that Chinese parents are flocking to pay American women to carry their babies, who are then raised in China under the Chinese Communist Party. They can then come back to the United States later and potentially acquire sensitive government jobs.
The American fertility industry is largely unregulated, with no required background checks on intended parents. It has led to concerns of child sexual abusers creating children whom they will have full access to, and now, the lack of regulations could have caused a national security threat.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
Contact editor@liveaction.org for questions, corrections, or if you are seeking permission to reprint any Live Action News content.
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