He was China’s ambassador to Moscow for ten years, and now he is set to take to the big stage: Li Hui, the Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Eurasian Affairs since 2019, will depart for Ukraine, Europe and Russia on Monday. In his telephone conversation with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Xi Jinping recently announced that he would send the 70-year-old Li to Kyiv as a special envoy.