Taiwan's drone industry is booming, with exports up 55-fold in a year — good news for Taiwan's defense makers and for Europe and Ukraine looking to cut China out of their supply chains.

• Poland and the Czech Republic are now the top buyers of Taiwanese drones and parts, and much of what they buy is not staying in those countries — a strong hint it is heading to Ukraine.
• Taiwan is pitching itself as the "non-red supply chain," able to build drone parts fully China-free, and Ukrainian contacts are actively seeking to drop Chinese components.
• The government is pushing a special law and extra budget to fast-track three types of drones the military urgently needs, while U.S.-Taiwan think tanks study a "hellscape" plan of mass AI drones against Chinese warships.
• This year's civil-defense drills hit several firsts: city governments and hospitals moved command posts and operating rooms underground, and 17 million people in the north and center joined a live communications exercise.
• Taiwan's key infrastructure faces 2.6 million cyberattacks a day, and officials reject claims the island's energy would last only 11–12 days in a blockade.

Outlook: Expect deeper Taiwan–Ukraine and Taiwan–Europe drone cooperation and a fast-tracked defense budget, with Taiwan increasingly seen as a model for civil resilience rather than a student of it.