Katherine Long

It's possible because there's a network of companies that are designed to cater to the whims of the very rich that are operating in a space nearly wholly devoid of regulation.

that would be shipped over to an IVF clinic in the United States.

An embryo might be created and then transferred into a surrogate in California.

We've spoken with a few surrogates who've said that the children they carried and gave birth to were ultimately picked up at the hospital, not by the parents, but by nannies or people carrying power of attorney documentation.

They may take care of them for a couple of months.

And once the child's travel documents are ready, the nanny will help bring the child back to China and reunite it with his parents.

This can easily cost well over $150,000.

We're looking at $200,000 is pretty typical.

And the judge starts asking questions and Shubo starts answering them.

And he says that ultimately he hopes to have as many as 20 children.

He says he wants to have all boys because they're superior to girls.

He says that he hopes his children will grow up to inherit his business empire.

Yes, that's right.

Well, according to people who were in the hearing, she seemed less than impressed by some of these answers.

At one point, the judge asked about the children that he'd already had through surrogates, and he said that he hadn't actually visited them yet because his work had been too busy.

We made numerous attempts to reach him through his company, and a representative for his company did end up responding, although they did not give their name.

They disputed many of the facts in our reporting.

They also promised to unleash a campaign of retribution against one of my colleagues on social media.

Wow.

Shubo is a video game entrepreneur.