Americans who spoke to Fox News in Wisconsin almost all agreed that Taiwan is its own country amid tensions over the island's independence from China. "Taiwan is definitely its own country," one man, Dustin, told Fox News. "It's its own independent country, and they have a sovereign right to exist." Another agreed and said: "China should mind their own business and stay out of that independent country." China considers Taiwan its territory, while the island's government rejects those claims and has operated as a self-ruled democracy since 1949. Beijing demands that countries seeking relations with China must sever formal ties from Taiwan, though the U.S.