Backpedalling will not facilitate rebuilding of American greatness

From his reportedly self-written inauguration speech to the goodbye-everything-of-the-past policy statements, Donald Trump, now the 45th President of the United States, has shown his administration will be going off the beaten track.

We have just witnessed the beginning of it: Aspiring to unite a politically divided nation with an essentially divisive rallying call - an inaugural speech that was anti-tradition, anti-establishment, anti-globalization, anti-free-trade and virtually anti-everything pre-Trump.

While it is purely the US' business whether and to what extent his home audience will rally under his banner, its new president's "America First" signboard is something for the rest of the world to worry about, China included.