Ren Ke is a senior journalist with Xinhua News Agency. Before returning to China in September 2023, Ren worked in Europe for more than six years. From 2017 to 2021, he was a Xinhua correspondent in Berlin, focusing on Germany’s domestic politics and foreign policies. From 2021 to 2023, Ren was deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua’s Europe Regional Bureau in Brussels and correspondent of EU institutions. In February 2022, Ren was one of the first Chinese correspondents who went to Ukraine to report the Russia-Ukraine War.