Chinese Actress Faces Backlash After Allegedly Hiring 2 Women to Have Her Babies Then Abandoning Them
Chinese actress Zheng Shuang is facing massive backlash after being accused by her former partner, producer Zhang Heng, of abandoning their two children born to U.S.-based surrogate mothers.
An international scandal: In a 2019 audio recording that emerged on Monday, Heng said Shuang decided to abandon the children before they were even born following the end of their relationship, South China Morning Post reports.
Heng, Shuang and their parents talked about the fate of the then-unborn children.
Shuang’s father purportedly made the suggestion to abandon the children at the hospital.
Belarus embassy issues statement on anniversary of diplomatic relations with China
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MINSK, 20 January (BelTA) – On 20 January Belarus-China diplomatic relations marked their 29th anniversary. The past year saw many events that strengthened bilateral relations and advanced them to a higher level, the Belarusian Embassy in China told BelTA.
“Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the decline of economic activity all over the world, the cooperation of the Republic of Belarus with the People s Republic of China intensified in all the fields. The two countries maintained political, economic, and humanitarian contacts.
The diplomatic mission recalled that on 11 June 2020, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko had a telephone conversation with President of the People s Republic of China Xi Jinping to discuss the bilateral agenda and efforts to increase Belarus exports to China.
BEIJING: Italian luxury label Prada has ended all cooperation with Chinese actress Zheng Shuang, a week after appointing her as a brand ambassador, after she was engulfed in a surrogacy controversy that has enthralled the Chinese public.
A Chinese Celebrity Scandal Puts Surrogate Births on Trial
The state news media excoriated an actress accused of abandoning babies born in the United States. Others say China’s limits on reproductive techniques at home are outdated.
Zheng Shuang, the Chinese actress at the center of the online furor, and her then partner, Zhang Heng, in Shanghai in 2019.Credit.Visual China Group, via Getty Images
The scandal already seemed tailor-made for celebrity websites and online gossips: A glamorous Chinese actress stood accused by her estranged partner of abandoning two surrogate babies they had decided to have together, stranding him in the United States to take care of them.