Taiwan's legislature approved an opposition-drafted law to fund homegrown drones and defense manufacturing, a step forward but one experts call incomplete and possibly risky.

• The law commits Taiwan to spending about NT$40 billion a year for six years on drones and defense self-reliance.
• The opposition-controlled legislature killed the cabinet's own version and passed its own instead.
• Split control between the economics ministry and the defense ministry raises the risk of slow, tangled decision-making.
• A rule requiring the new drone strategy committee to publish its records could leak military secrets, defense analyst Su Tzu-yun warns.
• Britain by comparison put its drone push under one ministry with a single large investment, a cleaner model than Taiwan's.

Outlook: The government will likely lean on administrative fixes and existing secrecy laws to patch the gaps rather than reopen the fight in parliament.