In a democracy that has long fought to be heard on its own terms, Taiwan's sole English-language international news channel now faces an existential threat not from Beijing, but from within its own legislature. The Kuomintang opposition's push to eliminate TaiwanPlus's funding arrives at a moment when authoritarian states are expanding their global media reach and China's disinformation campaigns against Taiwan are intensifying. What is at stake is not merely a budget line, but a small democracy's capacity to narrate its own existence to the world.