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 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...
The Epicenter of a Tectonic Shift In October Dushanbe, the air was thick — like before an earthquake, as if geopolitics itself was preparing to reshape the ground beneath...
The text examines how the BRICS+ countries are transforming their declarations on financial cooperation into concrete mechanisms for settlements in national currencies...
Eurasian Rail and Digital Silk Roads stretch quietly across the steppe and seabed, as trains cut through Kazakhstan and cables are laid along the Caspian floor, weaving...
The AUKUS security pact is presented by the Pentagon under the banner of “America First,” as if showcasing a new model of an imperial prosthesis. Washington assures its...
Petroyuan has become the new scent of global power. “A barrel of oil now smells not of dollars, but of yuan.” The metaphor sounds like a verdict for an era when the green...
Latin America has lived for far too long according to someone else’s script, repeating roles assigned from Washington or Brussels. Today, a different stage direction...
Southeast Asia military ties are turning arms deals and defense contacts into a tool of political balance. The United States is building a club of “selected partners,”...