Taiwan's cabinet has signed off on an opposition-written drone and defense-industry bill, but it is warning that funding defense year by year will leave the island's buildup unstable.

• Taiwan's legislature passed the opposition's version of a bill on defense self-reliance and drone manufacturing, and Premier Cho Jung-tai countersigned it.
• Cabinet secretary-general Chang Tun-han compared the change to making Shohei Ohtani re-sign every single year instead of locking in a long deal.
• The government wanted drone money in a special multi-year budget; the opposition version pushes it back into the regular annual budget.
• The same Ohtani comparison was used before to defend a NT$1.25 trillion special defense bill, which the KMT chair attacked as turning Taiwan into an arms factory.
• The cabinet's line is that strength deters attack — a strong team, like a strong military, gets pitched around rather than challenged.

Outlook: With the drone program now tied to annual funding, the fight shifts to whether lawmakers approve the money on time and in full.