Taiwan's cabinet has signed off on a new drone and defense-industry law it previously refused to endorse, handing the opposition a political win and deepening the fight over who controls lawmaking.

• The legislature passed a bill to boost home-grown defense and drone manufacturing, and the cabinet has now countersigned it.
• Taiwan People's Party chair Huang Kuo-chang says the move proves the earlier refusals to sign off on laws had no legal basis.
• He accuses President Lai Ching-te and Premier Cho Jung-tai of picking and choosing which laws to publish based on what the president likes.
• US think-tank scholars have also called the earlier refusals unconstitutional, which undercuts the usual charge that critics are pro-Beijing.

Outlook: The constitutional standoff between Taiwan's opposition-controlled legislature and the ruling party is set to keep escalating into the next election cycle, even as the drone law moves ahead.