I refer to earlier postings.
Well, things are getting clearer.
In December, many Beijing expats turned on their cellphones to find grim rumors buzzing on social media platform WeChat – foreigners, it seemed, were the victims of a series of attacks. The details in the rumors varied – sometimes it was Sanlitun, other times Wudaokou. Were the perpetrators driving a BMW or a van? Were they armed with baseball bats or metal rods?
The gang alleged to have been targeting foreigners with baseball has been caught. Police are now appealing for witnesses, details:
http://beijingcream.com/2015/01/arrested-local-gang-alleged-to-have-targeted-foreigners-with-bats/
and also a wider overview:
http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2015/01/group-accused-of-attacking-foreigners-arrested/

In short:
A trio of Chinese men armed with baseball bats and metal pipes has been detained, following a violent assault on students at one of Beijing’s best-known universities. The case bears strong similarities to a series of racially tinged assaults alleged to have recently occurred in several foreign-centric districts, including Sanlitun, Houhai and Wudaokou, in which foreign witnesses reported being attacked without provocation by local men carrying weapons and traveling in a vehicle. The incidents were widely reported on WeChat and discussed on local forums, such as Reddit, where many expressed concern about possible hate crimes.

Part 2 covers September to December 2014.

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See previous post for the explanations.
See the name of the picture to find the date it was taken.

My birthday follows a rather standard program: in the day I disappear to reflect on the year, calendar year and one more year of my life (by now, too many of them).
In the evening of 31 December we all head to our favorite restaurant, Morel’s. The best Belgian food you can find.
This time we joined Willem and his wife, one of my Dutch palls (we often meet on Friday evenings).

There was of course the enormous menu – Valerie went for it but she shared generously. I went for the delicious steak, Sun went for the Belgian endive dish (we all think it is the best dish of the restaurant). And we couldn’t miss a waffle.
Besides that, we emptied a number of bottles and had good fun.
Thanks to Renaat and Susan for one more great evening.

After my earlier post, also on WeChat, as well as postings by others, I could tentatively conclude: there might be indeed some isolated incidents but it is not a big trend. Well, a bit reassuring. It there were more, for sure some people would have come forward, or?
See here some of the postings I found, slightly edited but leaving the text as it is, just putting it all together:

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Don’t want to scare anyone. But please watch out your back. There is a group of Chinese guys attacking foreigners that go out with Chinese girls or guys. They always attack with baseball bats and iron loads. They already attacked in village, around heavens and wudaokou, the street of Blcu, houhai and nanluguxiang.They usually use a grey Bmw but pay attention to other cars too. Usually if they are driving and see foreigners and Chinese together they get out of the car and start yelling Chinese girls belong to Chinese guys. This is the info that I got from victims that contacted me yesterday. They attack foreigners: white, blacks, Hispanic
Please share and if you know any case please tell them to report to the police and write an article at the magazines that are read by expats. …
Call the police or go to the police station to report the situation. They already know this but did not identify them.
Heard that a group of 4 had baseball bats yesterday @ wudaokou and that this group is looking only for foreigners. So anyone knows if this is true or not?? Because my female friend also got attacked by by a group of guys in Uibe area.
All the cases happened with foreigner guys walking with Chinese or Mongolian girls
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And this is the only published article I could find:
http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2014/12/foreign-victim-of-alleged-attack-says-stay-polite/

Well, if anybody has comments, let me know. And always better to be careful. Anyway I think Beijing is safer than many parts of Belgium where unfriendly foreigners are aggressive towards … Belgians. Or, the world upside down.