China has rewritten its national defense mobilization law to let it flip the country from peacetime to wartime footing quickly, a clear negative for Taiwan's security outlook.

• The revised law takes effect October 1 and for the first time spells out what "national defense mobilization" means.
• It lets Beijing turn economic and social resources into military power to defend claims over sovereignty, unification, and territory.
• Taiwan's ruling DPP calls China its biggest threat and says defense is no longer just the defense ministry's job.
• The party wants a broader push: building up the military, more asymmetric weapons, and getting ordinary people more aware of security threats.
• Separately, DPP lawmakers voiced embarrassment over reports of widespread vote-buying in Hualien noticed by foreign journalists based in Taiwan.

Outlook: Expect Taipei to lean harder into civil defense and asymmetric weapons as the new Chinese law kicks in this autumn.