Plasma spontaneous rotation significantly affects confinement performance and stability in tokamaks. Effectively inducing this rotation is essential for stabilizing resistive wall modes (RWMs) and ensuring the stable operation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Recent experiments conducted on the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device demonstrated that resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) can induce neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV) torque under certain conditions, successfully driving plasma rotation. Similarly, on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), an increase in plasma rotation in the direction of the plasma current has been observed following RMP application. However, unlike the KSTAR findings, the NTV torque simulations for EAST are two orders of magnitude lower than experimental measurements, indicating additional mechanisms beyond NTV may drive the observed plasma rotations. In this paper, to investigate these mechanisms, momentum balance, causality, and statistical analyses are performed at EAST. An increase in rotation velocity is found to correlate with significant changes in the ${\boldsymbol{E}}\times{\boldsymbol{B}}$ flow, matching the RMP-induced torque distribution. This alignment suggests that residual stress, arising from variations in ${\boldsymbol{E}}\times{\boldsymbol{B}}$ shear, may cause the observed rotation to increase. The effects of stochastic fields on multi-scale turbulence are considered as a possible explanation for correlations between ${\boldsymbol{E}}\times{\boldsymbol{B}}$ velocity and toroidal rotation. Stochastic fields appear to enhance the inertia of large-scale turbulence while driving small-scale turbulence to maintain quasi-neutrality. The resulting turbulent Reynolds stress, generated by small-scale turbulence, may account for the increases of the observed ${\boldsymbol{E}}\times{\boldsymbol{B}}$ velocity during RMP application. Statistical analysis further highlights the importance of island width in understanding the threshold RMP current in ramping-up RMP experiments, supporting the conclusion that turbulence-driven ${\boldsymbol{E}}\times{\boldsymbol{B}}$ shear-related residual stress is the key mechanism of driving plasma rotation following RMP application.