Taiwan's push into drone warfare is winning praise in Washington, and the pressure is now on Trump to back it with weapons — good news for Taiwan's defense industry, bad news for Beijing.

• Taiwan's legislature passed a new defense bill funding drones and homegrown production over the next six years.
• Taiwan's drone exports to Europe in the first quarter already beat all of last year, with most ending up in Ukraine.
• Swarms of cheap drones could turn the Taiwan Strait into a nightmare for Chinese forces, in the words of US Pacific Command chief Sam Paparo.
• Washington has long complained Taiwan buys too many big-ticket fighter jets instead of cheap weapons that blunt a stronger enemy — that criticism is now easing.
• A $14 billion arms package for Taiwan is frozen ahead of Xi Jinping's expected September visit to the US.

Outlook: Watch whether Trump unfreezes the arms sale after the Xi meeting and whether the bipartisan Blue Skies for Taiwan Act, which would build drone supply chains free of Chinese parts, moves in the Senate.