A Surrogacy Silk Road: Chinese Parents Head West for Babies (opens in new tab)

Georgia has become an increasingly popular destination for Chinese visitors. The number of visits nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024, with more than 88,500 visits last year. Yet leisure tourism does not account for the infant-filled flights back to China. Rather, it seems more likely the tiny passengers were the reason many Chinese visitors had traveled to Georgia in the first place. The international surrogacy market has boomed in the region, where it has come to be considered a “gold mine...