Stop the attacks on minorities: Trump 

President-elect Donald Trump has sought to reassure Americans fearful of a crackdown on minorities – while assuring his core supporters he will not let them down on gun rights, abortion or immigration.
The Republican billionaire, whose shock election on a populist and anti-immigration platform has spurred days of protests, told demonstrators they have no reason to fear his presidency.
“Don’t be afraid. We are going to bring our country back,” he said in the interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes”.
Trump said he was “saddened” by reports that incidents of harassment and intimidation of minorities had spiked since his election – and called for it to end.
“I hate to hear that. I am so saddened to hear that,” Trump said when asked about the reports. “If it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it.”
Trump sent out clear signals to his core electorate on a string of flashpoint issues. He reaffirmed plans to deport or jail as many as three million undocumented immigrants – those with criminal records.
Trump also stood by his pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border – but he said it could include some fencing.
And on the key issue of the Supreme Court – where one of nine seats is now vacant – he vowed his nominees would support abortion restrictions, and defend the constitutional right to bear arms. 
“The judges will be pro-life,” Trump told CBS. “In terms of the whole gun situation,” he added, “they’re going to be very pro-Second Amendment.” But he also signalled he would not seek to overturn the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the United States.
And in a conciliatory gesture, the billionaire said he would forego the US$400,000 (Bt14.2 million) salary that comes with the function of US president. “I’m not going to take the salary. I’m not taking it,” he said. “I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year,” he added.
In Bangkok yesterday, international relations experts said in a seminar that the Trump doctrine expected to be revealed soon may see a rearrangement of the US-influenced order in Asia, particularly in the East and Middle East.
Surachart Bamrungsuk, an international security academic from Chulalongkorn University, said Trump campaigned with policies that could see a shift in the military balance in East Asia – so that it no longer deters China from expanding its influence in the region and beyond.
While Trump mentioned little about Asia during his campaign, Surachart said Trump’s economic focus on China could make room for the eastern power to play a more prominent geopolitical role, including in the contested South China Sea, where Beijing’s claims have been contested by four Asean countries.
Trump’s expectation that Japan and South Korea should help fund US military bases in their countries would also mean that they need to be more self-reliant, he said, against China and North Korea as major rivals, with possible preparation for nuclear proliferation. There was also the chance that the US under Trump and Russia would have a relationship with more compromises, plus more intense wars against Islamic State militants in the Middle East, he said.
Another expert, Chaiwat Kamchoo, said Trump’s “America First” outlook actually did not utterly oppose free trade. Rather, it went against measures that he deems to disfavour American interests, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This also included a plan to lift tariffs on imported goods.