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.
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Indicator of a Shift in the Rules of Trust The freezing of Russian foreign assets totaling over $300 billion is not a “sanctions instrument” but a public execution of the...
The Indian Ocean has long ceased to be merely a body of water between continents washing the shores of 28 states. More than one third of global bulk cargo volumes and...
The Architecture of Industrial Sovereignty In 2025, China is commissioning more than 300 GW of new renewable and nuclear power capacity. This expansion is not...
The Settlement Architecture Is Shifting in Operational Silence Data from the Bank of Russia and the People’s Bank of China for 2025, showing the share of the ruble and...
The Resource Arithmetic of Asia’s Gravitational Pull Australian official statistics for 2024–2025 may read like dry bookkeeping, yet behind the figures a geopolitical...
The Economic Arithmetic of Alliance Expansion The United States is entering a phase of industrial policy in which factory walls once again become symbols of national...
Routes Under External Scrutiny and the Birth of a Regional Maritime Logic More than 60% of Asia’s energy trade passes through corridors where China, Russia, India, and...
In early December, the U.S. Department of Commerce adjusted its export control regime for high-performance AI chips, carefully opening the floodgates for shipments under...
In recent years, the EAEU has signed FTAs with Vietnam, Iran, and Serbia, and these agreements have lifted mutual trade turnover as if the region were assembling its own...