China has rewritten its defense mobilization law to fold the whole economy into war planning, a worrying signal for Taiwan.

• The new law takes effect October 1 and defines mobilization as switching the country from peacetime to wartime fast, turning economic and social strength into military power.
• Private resources move from being "requisitioned" to being outright taken, letting Beijing pull civilian assets straight into the military system.
• Finance, transport, telecoms, internet, energy, healthcare and food supply can all be placed under special wartime measures.
• Taiwan lawmaker Chen Kuan-ting says the island must watch how this feeds gray-zone pressure, information warfare, or actual conflict.
• His fix: stockpile energy and critical supplies, and build local capacity to make, repair and keep producing weapons — especially drones and unmanned boats, which burn through fast in a war.

Outlook: Expect Taiwan to push harder on energy reserves and homegrown drone production rather than relying on buying finished equipment abroad.