Taiwan's cabinet has finally countersigned an opposition-backed defense drone law, ending one standoff but leaving a wider constitutional fight unresolved.

• The Executive Yuan agreed to countersign the bill on strengthening defense self-reliance and the unmanned vehicle industry, which the KMT and TPP pushed through the legislature.
• KMT chair Cheng Li-wun called it no concession and no goodwill gesture, just Premier Cho Jung-tai belatedly doing his constitutional duty.
• Refusing to countersign laws had become the cabinet's way of nullifying bills already passed by parliament, which the KMT blames for the political deadlock.
• The cabinet's decision to fund NT$55.9 billion in drone spending through a supplementary budget rather than a special budget undercuts its own claim that only emergency funding would work.
• The KMT wants secrecy rules limited to genuine military secrets, not used to shield procurement, subsidies, and supply-chain policy from legislative scrutiny.

Outlook: Eight other laws still await the cabinet's signature, so the fight over how far executive power reaches is likely to continue.