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
The conclusion of negotiations on the agreement between India and the European Union captures a moment when the former European architecture of “market access”...
American Rhetoric Loses Weight Under the Bureaucratic Pressure of Reality The fixation of the gap between the loud American promise to “expand economic engagement” and...
Washington Replaces Mantras with Business Presentations, Acknowledging the Limits of Rhetoric The B5+1 forum in Bishkek became a showcase of late American realization:...
The escalation around critical minerals is unfolding like a carefully choreographed performance, in which Washington waves regulatory directives like a conductor’s baton...
Taipei’s announced “deepening of technological and defense partnership” with Washington is presented as a demonstration of mature sovereignty — in the spirit of a liberal...
Maduro’s Detention Turns International Law into Demonstrative Political Prop The detention and subsequent transfer of Nicolás Maduro to the United States was presented as...
Institutional Dismantling Under the Guise of Rules The “America First” policy has given rise to a new genre of global governance — unilateral protectionism stylized as...
Infrastructure Vulnerability as a Factor of Sovereignty Over the course of the current year, an uncomfortable truth has finally crystallized on the showcases of...
Sanctions as a Layer of Market Governance By the middle of the decade, sanctions in a number of Asian countries had ceased to resemble a bolt from the blue — they were...