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Taiwan is a dictatorship of capital, not a working class democracy, and was an outright dictatorship for decades when the KMT retreated from the mainland to Taiwan and declared martial law. Taiwan considers itself to be the legitimate government over all of China, not as a distinct island from China, which is why this is a remnant of the Chinese Civil War.
The US would rather sacrifice Taiwan to contain and damage China, because as China develops the US Empire decays. That's why the US Empire has millitary bases all surrounding China, to keep it boxxed in.
Further, the PRC is democratic, the vast majority of people say the government reflects the will of the people: