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The relationship between the provinces and Beijing is one of the most complex and difficult to fathom in China. Usually however, the central government can use it undoubted muscle in situations where it deems it politically necessary. [...]
      

The following is from Pu Cheng City’s (晋城市, Shanxi Province) municipal party committee’s website of today, concerning VRT journalist Tom van de Weghe’s trip to Shangqiu, Henan Province on November 27.
Henan Province denied yesterday that three Belgian journalists had recently been violently attacked when interviewing AIDS victims.
Xinhua quotes Henan Province Foreign Affairs Office Deputy Director of Information Services [...]

Local official: Belgian journalists, villagers scuffle in China’s AIDS zone
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ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — An investigation is in progress into an incident in which three Belgian journalists scuffled with villagers in central China’s AIDS zone on Nov. 27, a provincial government spokesman said on Tuesday. [.....]
      

Tom Van de Weghe and his crew were attacked in a rural area of Henan province while interviewing people suffering from AIDS, according to the Foreign Correspondents Club of China on Thursday, according to boxun.com.
According to a statement on the Foreign Correspondents Club website,
Van de Weghe, his cameraman and assistant were beaten up and robbed [...]

It was windy today, and rainy, with some snow in between, humid and cold. At nightfall, the wind had abated, and the rain turned into snow altogether. Now there’s one or two centimeters on the roads and squares, and it may become 15 centimeters until tomorrow, according to the weather forecasts.
It’s a beautiful, silent night [...]