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"If you're rich, you can do whatever you want." This sentence seems to perfectly summarize the unusual and shocking story of a Chinese billionaire, which resembles more a science fiction movie script than the reality of our days.
According to Corriere della Sera, Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire who built his fortune from the online gaming industry, is accused of having fathered dozens, even hundreds, of children through surrogate pregnancies in the United States, without ever knowing most of them personally.
Alarm was raised in the American judicial system when Los Angeles judge Amy Pellman decided to suspend some legal proceedings after noticing an unusually large number of requests for recognition of children related to the same name: Xu Bo. The investigations that followed revealed shocking proportions.
According to sources close to the matter, Xu Bo may have at least 100 children in California alone, all of them boys, and about 300 more in China, born through surrogacy or out of wedlock. A "biological empire" built with money, contracts and medical clinics.
Xu Bo, born in Wuhan in 1977, officially acknowledges only 12 children from six different women, none of whom were his wives. He has publicly stated that he does not believe in marriage, describing it as a failed institution that often ends in divorce and where, according to him, women are losers.
The case has sparked a huge debate in China, where more and more super-rich individuals are turning to surrogacy as a means of securing heirs, mostly males. In many cases, the process goes even further: the selection of the mother is done according to criteria such as beauty, intelligence, height or physical strength.
It is even reported that specialized agencies have been created, which provide eggs from models or women considered "genetically superior", with the aim of creating "ideal" heirs and building family alliances, similar to those of the Chinese imperial era.
Xu Bo's case has brought back strong memories of the old dynastic traditions that Mao Zedong had tried to eradicate during the Cultural Revolution. Today, as China advances by leaps and bounds in technology, artificial intelligence and science, some of its elite appear to be reverting to old practices, using wealth as a means to control life, body and inheritance.
A story that raises strong ethical, legal, and human questions: how far does the power of money go – and who protects children in this new reality?
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