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China is very vocal about taiwan being theirs.
Edit: Insane how much this this one factual statement has been interpreted.
Do you have a reasonable explanation of why it should be the US's and not theirs?
Can't it just be Taiwan's?
Taiwan claims the mainland is theirs, the mainland claims Taiwan is theirs, because both claim to be the legitimate government of all of China, and Taiwan is a part of China.
Taiwan exists only because the US intervened to stop the fascists it supported in the civil war from being wiped out, so it's necessarily a US protectorate/puppet.
And to circle back again to your question, no it couldn't be; they killed the people who were there before they moved in.