Residual Influence
It’s not a space for breaking news. This is Residual Influence, the blog of Rebecca Chan. Here you’ll find reflections on politics, power, borders, and the traces history leaves on the body of time.
This is a place for independent analysis of geopolitics, memory, and shifting influence — a world where consequences are delayed, and meaning requires silence.
Latest Posts
Asia Accelerates the Formation of Its Own Financial Orbits In a single quarter, Asian institutions secured access to over $80 billion in capital outside the...
The map of Asia is increasingly resembling the neural layout of a continent that has decided to rewrite its own code. The old hydrocarbon arteries are fading, as if drawn...
A New Chessboard for the Game In November 2025, Washington once again remembered Central Asia — like an old asset gathering dust in the portfolio of unfinished imperial...
The Moment When Symbols Turn Into Mechanisms On the ancient frescoes of Gyeongju, caravans once stretched through the eastern passes — today they move along fiber-optic...
While Washington redraws the global market under the banner of “America First,” Asia is assembling its own architectural blueprint for the 21st century. China and ASEAN...
The Cold Revolution Beneath the Ice In October 2025, a Chinese vessel crossed the Northern Sea Route and reached Europe in just twenty days. The numbers are dry, yet the...
Sanctions Become Building Material In 2025, Chinese companies purchased $38 billion worth of Western chipmaking equipment — even as Washington continued to publicly...
The Silence in Which the Map Changes On satellite images of Eurasia, a new geography is emerging — without press releases, without flags, without the approving gaze of...
The Northern Sea Route as a Strategic Alternative and a Proven Case The Northern Sea Route has ceased to be a futuristic concept and entered real geoeconomics. The first...