Taiwan's cabinet has finally signed off on a law to build up the island's own drone industry, ending one standoff with parliament but not the wider fight over who controls the money.

• The cabinet countersigned the drone and defense self-reliance law parliament passed, saying defense and industry upgrades cannot wait.
• Opposition leader Cheng Li-wun called it no favor and no concession, just the premier doing the job the constitution already requires.
• The complaint: Premier Cho Jung-tai had been refusing to countersign laws, effectively cancelling them, which the KMT blames for the political deadlock.
• The cabinet had insisted drone money needed a special budget, then put the drone funding into a regular supplementary budget instead — which the opposition says proves a special budget was never necessary.
• The KMT backs a homegrown drone supply chain but wants procurement, subsidies and industrial policy open to parliamentary scrutiny, arguing "secret" cannot mean unaudited.

Outlook: Eight other bills are still waiting on the premier's signature, so the fight over budget power and oversight is likely to continue.