Nicholas Welch is a master’s student in East Asian Studies at Stanford University. He earned his bachelor of arts from Stanford, writing his senior capstone essay about the 2020 Hong Kong national security law. During his undergraduate career, he lived in Taiwan — studying Mandarin at National Taiwan University’s International Chinese Language Program — and in Hong Kong, as an exchange student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked as an editor of several publications, including DigiChina and The Stanford Daily, where he was the head copy editor. His research interests also include PRC-US-Taiwan relations, and he is a research assistant for Professor Oriana Skylar Mastro. Before starting at Stanford, he served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Toronto, Canada.