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Although his first administration famously waged a trade war with Beijing, Trump’s attitude toward the island of Taiwan is bluntly transactional.

Both are brazenly transactional, and cling tenaciously to grudges.

Dan Ujczo, a trade lawyer at the Ohio-based firm Thompson Hine, drew a distinction between Monday’s tariff announcement, which he said was “very tactical and transactional, targeted for a specific purpose,” and Trump’s plans on universal tariffs and those aimed at China.

Baptist cleric Daniel Wambua added that religious leaders were now determined to end the "transactional relationship" with the state.

“He can hold a bigger picture in his head, and I’m sure it will not be simply transactional.”