Peter Schweizer

We have no idea how widespread this is, but I'll give you two quick facts.

Number one,

The Wall Street Journal ran a front page story about four or five weeks ago about a single Chinese billionaire close to the CCP who had more than 100 children.

that had been born this way.

This was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Second data point, in our research, we identified 107 Chinese companies in Southern California that were advertising in China for these surrogacy services.

So that's another aspect of it.

Again, we have no idea because surrogacy is essentially a unregulated industry.

And there's no records kept on the nationality of the parents as such.

So, again, that's another element of this problem.

And the root of it is this issue of birthright citizenship.

That's a good question.

So the estimates that I list in the book, one is from the Chinese government and the other two are from Chinese research firms that track that industry.

One of the research firms posited that just in 2018 alone, there were 150,000 researchers.

I don't know how to verify that, but they, I think, were curious because this industry has exploded in China.

Again, I recognize the fact that there are some people in the Chinese elite who want maybe a safety valve, a way of escaping, an escape hatch.

But the fact that the Chinese government has allowed this industry to thrive –

and operate unregulated.

You cannot advertise things online in China without the explicit approval of the Chinese government.

And you go on the Chinese internet, you know, behind the Great Wall, as they call it, and it's all over the place.