Taiwan's opposition-controlled legislature wrapped up the longest extended session in its history without moving most bills, which is bad news for national security and child protection laws that have been sitting untouched.

• Almost 2,600 bills passed a first reading and then went nowhere in committee.
• DPP lawmaker Kuo Yu-ching blames the KMT–TPP majority for putting political fights ahead of security and daily-life issues.
• A national security bill targeting Chinese spies and requiring lawmakers to report trips to China was blocked in the procedural committee more than a thousand times.
• A child welfare bill — nursery cameras, tougher penalties for abuse, forced takedowns of child sexual images online, bigger childcare subsidies — is also frozen.
• The extended session skipped bills, and the budget session skipped the budget.

Outlook: A new budget session is starting, and the same blockage is likely to continue unless the opposition parties agree to prioritize the stalled security and child protection bills.