Cho Jung-tai
Premier of Taiwan's Executive Yuan since May 2024, from the Democratic Progressive Party.
As premier, Cho Jung-tai added his countersignature to Taiwan's six-year, NT$240bn drone law, which President Lai Ching-te brought into force on 11 September 2026; Cho's Cabinet now drafts the yearly budgets that carry the money.
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Taiwan's drone law is signed; who spends the NT$240bn and on what?
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Lai signs Taiwan's six-year drone law
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Cho Jung-tai leads the Executive Yuan, Taiwan's Cabinet, and in that role countersigns laws before the president promulgates them. He countersigned the drone spending law, which the legislature voted through on 27 August and Lai Ching-te enacted on 11 September 2026.
That law commits NT$240bn to uncrewed systems over six years. In principle NT$40bn of it falls in each year's defence budget, and only that money clause was live on signing; other parts follow from about 11 March 2027. Because Cho's Cabinet drafts every annual budget, the yearly sum depends on the Executive Yuan as much as on legislators.
Cho is the 29th Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), in office since 20 May 2024. He was Born in Taipei on 22 January 1959, belongs to the Democratic Progressive Party and holds a law degree from National Chung Hsing University.
