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How China supercharged ‘birth tourism’ and scammed American citizenship for up to 1.5 million babies
But this time, the baby was the progeny of Chinese citizens, and the mother had intentionally traveled to give birth on American soil, so that the child would automatically be granted US citizenship, a practice known as birth tourism. When such children turn 21, they can also apply for resident status for both of their parents.
This baby was born in the US territory of Saipan in the Pacific. More than 70% of the newborns in Saipan are Chinese birth tourist parents who utilize the territory’s 45-day visa-free visitation rules and the “Covenant of the Northern Mariana Islands” to guarantee that their children will have American citizenship.
That little child’s parents are two of many who are taking advantage of America’s birthright citizenship policies, based on an interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. How many is anyone’s guess.
Since the US government does not directly track birth tourism, we must rely on estimates. In 2012, one nonprofit calculated that about 36,000 foreign-born women gave birth in the United States and then left the country.
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But the number is likely to be far, far higher. Chinese officials estimate that the number is a staggering 50,000 of their own citizens per year. Scholars who have studied the subject in depth, like Australia-based professor Salvator Babones, put the figure even higher, perhaps twice that.
“With up to 100,000 Chinese babies being born US citizens every year,” he writes, “birth tourism may result in millions of new elite Chinese-Americans.”
Chinese birth tourism in the United States has been practiced for decades, but it has especially flourished in the past 15 years.
That means at least 750,000 and possibly as many as 1.5 million Chinese, who are also American citizens by virtue of being born here, are now growing toward adulthood in China.
Feds Raid Chinese Bio Lab in Las Vegas That Made People ‘Deathly Ill’
“Initial search of the residence on Sugar Springs identified a bio-safety hood, a bio-safety sticker, a centrifuge, multiple refrigerators, red-brown unknown liquids in gallon-sized containers and refrigerated vials with unknown liquids,” said Christopher Delzotto, FBI Special Agent in Charge at the Las Vegas office.
On Monday, the samples were reportedly loaded onto an FBI aircraft to be transported to the National Bioforensic Analysis Center in Maryland for testing.
The Vegas home, which also served as an Airbnb, is owned by David Destiny Discovery LLC, according to the Clark County Assessor’s Office.
David Destiny Discovery LLC is registered in Nevada under the name David He, a pseudonym used by Jia Bei Zhu, who was arrested in October 2023 for running an illegal biolab in Reedley, California.
In that case, thousands of vials of bacterial and viral agents, labeled coronavirus, chlamydia, E. coli, dengue fever, streptococcus pneumonia, HIV, hepatitis, herpes, rubella, and malaria were collected, along with 1,000 transgenetic mice, according to a federal report.
Zhu, a Chinese national with possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party, was charged with manufacturing and distributing medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and for making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He pleaded not guilty and remains in custody. A trial for Zhu scheduled for March 10, 2026.
A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT accidentally revealed a global intimidation operation
The article from CNN, published on February 25, 2026, reports on a major revelation from OpenAI about a Chinese-linked influence operation exposed through misuse of ChatGPT.
Key Details
A Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT essentially as a personal diary to document and plan a large-scale, covert campaign of transnational repression and intimidation targeting critics and dissidents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) living abroad. This accidental logging of activities allowed OpenAI's investigators to uncover and disrupt the operation.The network allegedly involved hundreds of operators and thousands of fake accounts across social media platforms. Tactics included:
- Impersonating US immigration officials to contact and warn US-based Chinese dissidents that their public statements violated laws (aiming to silence or scare them).
- Using forged documents from a US county court to pressure platforms into removing a dissident's social media accounts.
- Spreading disinformation, such as fake rumors of a dissident's death in 2023 — complete with fabricated obituaries and photos of a gravestone (later corroborated by real-world reports, like a Voice of America article).
- Planning coordinated online attacks, including generating hashtags and content to denigrate Japan's incoming Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi around late October (tied to complaints about US tariffs on Japanese goods). One ChatGPT prompt to create such a plan was refused by the AI.
The company banned the offending ChatGPT account and detailed the findings in a threat intelligence report released on February 25, 2026.
Broader Context and Implications
Experts like Michael Horowitz (former Pentagon official, now at the University of Pennsylvania) noted this fits into the intensifying US-China AI competition, extending beyond frontier tech into surveillance, information operations, and day-to-day authoritarian control apparatus.OpenAI has previously reported similar misuse by suspected Chinese entities (e.g., for mass surveillance proposals in 2025 reports), highlighting ongoing risks of AI tools being co-opted for state-backed influence and repression efforts.
CNN sought comment from the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, but no response was noted in the coverage.
This story underscores growing concerns about how accessible AI like ChatGPT can be weaponized in geopolitical influence campaigns, even as companies like OpenAI work to detect and mitigate such abuse.
A federal investigation later unveiled a weeks-long plot involving multiple conspirators, with one man, whom others called the “boss,” giving instructions from China.
They were after a trove of sensitive personal details about the Lius.
Red flags were already emerging before the FBI’s warning. Days earlier, a man had called Arthur claiming to be with the International Olympic Committee and asking for faxed copies of both his and Alysa’s passports in preparation for their upcoming trip to Beijing.
Arthur, suspicious of the unusual request, did not comply, though the conspirators were also taking other avenues to get what they wanted.
Court documents reveal they discussed placing a GPS tracker on Arthur’s car, installing hidden cameras to capture visitors, reporting on him daily, and tracking down the duo’s Social Security numbers through a contact at the IRS. With $800, they got the Lius’ passport photos and address in the name of “debt collection.”
Their neighbor later told Arthur that the man who posed as an Olympic official showed up near the Lius’ house and Arthur’s office multiple times. The neighbor recognized the man from a federal indictment.
What happened to the Lius illustrates how Beijing uses its long arm to suppress dissent.
“For all these years, the Chinese Communist Party has never stopped spying on me,” Arthur said. “They won’t let me off the hook.”
The intense interest from Beijing came as no surprise to Arthur, a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which hundreds, if not thousands, of young people who hoped for political reform in communist China were crushed by tanks or shot.
A key protest leader in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, Arthur fled mainland China after the bloodshed, escaping on a small boat to Hong Kong under the cover of night before seeking refuge in the United States.
Since rebuilding his life as an immigration lawyer, the father of five has remained a vocal critic of Beijing’s human rights record. And his eldest daughter, now skating back into the international limelight, has been among his top supporters. At one point, Alysa shared a social media post highlighting the abuse of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, he said.
Arthur described having other brushes with Chinese agents over the years.
In the 1990s, the Chinese Communist Party sent a man to befriend him and collect his information.
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They were after a trove of sensitive personal details about the Lius.
Red flags were already emerging before the FBI’s warning. Days earlier, a man had called Arthur claiming to be with the International Olympic Committee and asking for faxed copies of both his and Alysa’s passports in preparation for their upcoming trip to Beijing.
Arthur, suspicious of the unusual request, did not comply, though the conspirators were also taking other avenues to get what they wanted.
Court documents reveal they discussed placing a GPS tracker on Arthur’s car, installing hidden cameras to capture visitors, reporting on him daily, and tracking down the duo’s Social Security numbers through a contact at the IRS. With $800, they got the Lius’ passport photos and address in the name of “debt collection.”
Their neighbor later told Arthur that the man who posed as an Olympic official showed up near the Lius’ house and Arthur’s office multiple times. The neighbor recognized the man from a federal indictment.
What happened to the Lius illustrates how Beijing uses its long arm to suppress dissent.
“For all these years, the Chinese Communist Party has never stopped spying on me,” Arthur said. “They won’t let me off the hook.”
‘In the Shadows’
The intense interest from Beijing came as no surprise to Arthur, a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which hundreds, if not thousands, of young people who hoped for political reform in communist China were crushed by tanks or shot.
A key protest leader in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, Arthur fled mainland China after the bloodshed, escaping on a small boat to Hong Kong under the cover of night before seeking refuge in the United States.
Since rebuilding his life as an immigration lawyer, the father of five has remained a vocal critic of Beijing’s human rights record. And his eldest daughter, now skating back into the international limelight, has been among his top supporters. At one point, Alysa shared a social media post highlighting the abuse of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, he said.
Arthur described having other brushes with Chinese agents over the years.
In the 1990s, the Chinese Communist Party sent a man to befriend him and collect his information.
The Improbable Comeback of Alysa Liu
At age 16 she was targeted by Chinese spies. She’s now the face of Olympic figure skating.
6 World Leaders Threatened in China-Linked Campaign Against Shen Yun
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s evacuation from his residence in response to a bomb threat earlier this week was not an isolated incident. Instead, he’s one of six world leaders targeted in a China-linked intimidation campaign, The Epoch Times has learned.
Since January, bomb and death threats by email have targeted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, Italian President Sergio Mattarella, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Among the latest on the list is Albanese.
The emails are all similar in tone and in the graphic threats they make. All have been written in Chinese. Their message is the same: cancel scheduled shows by Shen Yun Performing Arts or face consequences.
“If you insist on proceeding with the Shen Yun performance, something will happen to the Canadian prime minister,” reads a Feb. 10 email obtained by The Epoch Times. “If you don’t care about Mark Carney and all Canadian high-ranking officials’ personal safety, then go ahead with the performance.”
“Won’t rule out shooting Lai Ching-te!” reads another from Jan. 8. “Or even crashing an explosives-loaded SUV into the Presidential Office Building. Go on if you don’t believe me.”
“If you don’t care about Mette Frederiksen and all Danish high-ranking officials’ personal safety, then go ahead with the performance,” another Feb. 10 email in Chinese reads. “I don’t care, as long as you can afford the consequences.”
An Escalating Campaign
While none of the threats turned out to be real, they represent an escalation of a decades-long campaign targeting the New York-based performing arts company.Performing under the slogan “China Before Communism,” Shen Yun depicts traditional Chinese culture through classical Chinese dance and music. Each year, it performs for a global live audience of around 1 million. The Epoch Times is a media sponsor of Shen Yun.
The performing arts company was founded by practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual group severely persecuted in China by the Chinese Communist Party. Shen Yun, since its inception in 2006, has faced a sabotage campaign from the regime that deploys tactics such as diplomatic and economic coercion to stop its performances.
The threat emails mark a new form of sabotage. Last year, a similar threat resulted in an evacuation at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, now named the Trump Kennedy Center.
After first surfacing about two years ago, the threats now total more than 130 and counting, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center. The actors behind them began by targeting both Shen Yun’s performers and their families, as well as the company’s training facilities.
They also threatened U.S. lawmakers, the White House, and theaters and institutions globally, often describing possible bombings or mass shootings as consequences should the show go on.
Taiwanese authorities, in a multiagency investigation, linked some of the emails to central China’s Xi’an city, with a research facility for tech giant Huawei—which is blacklisted in the United States over national security concerns—as a prime suspect.
Chinese Communist Party Using Nonprofit Networks To Attack American Energy, Report Suggests
A Chinese Communist Party connected organization gave millions of dollars to an environmental law non-profit that targets energy projects in Louisiana.
The Pelican Institute For Public Policy published a report outlining the institutional barriers preventing Louisiana from developing its energy industry. Earthjustice, an environmental law organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, receives millions of dollars in funding from a non-profit organization with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) connections, according to the Pelican Institute.
Earthjustice has represented green advocacy groups such as RISE St. James, Concerned Citizens of St. John, and the Alliance for Affordable Energy in lawsuits, permit challenges, and civil rights complaints, according to the Pelican Institute. RISE St. James and Alliance for Affordable Energy are part of Louisiana Against False Solutions (LAF), an advocacy group coalition dedicated to transitioning the energy market away from fossil fuels, according to the Pelican Institute.
Earthjustice targeted a proposed petrochemical plant from Formosa Plastics, Denka’s synthetic rubber-producing facility, a Mitsubishi Chemical plant and a methane gas power plant produced by Entergy Louisiana, according to the Pelican Institute.
Earthjustice received $6,562,936 from Energy Foundation China (EFC) since 2003, a non-profit organization with ties to the Chinese government. EFC CEO Ji Zhou previously worked in leadership positions with China’s official National Center For Climate Change Strategy which is embedded in the National Development and Reform Commission of the State Council. Zhou attended the 2015 Paris Climate Talks as a Chinese delegate, according to reporting by State Armor.
EFC board member Hongjun Zhang, a Washington D.C.-based lawyer, was previously a legislative director for the Chinese National People’s Congress, according to a report by The Washington Free Beacon.
EFC has a registered headquarters in San Francisco and one in Beijing registered with the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, according to Influence Watch.
EFC used to be part of the U.S. Energy Foundation (EF), which also funds LAF associated groups, until they split into two distinct organizations in 2019. EF and EFC still shared the same office in San Francisco after the split until 2022 and shared company personnel until at least 2024 with 6 EFC employees being compensated by EF up to July 24, according to the Pelican Institute.