Wallis along with Ron Sider and Tony Campolo (sp?) were regarded as heroes of faith by many Asian Christians. I grew up under that environment with Bible teachers and Christian weiters exhorting that they are where Christians should stand in politics.
I have always opposed Communism and supported war against terrorists/rogue states and at one time the teachings by these Christians made me wonder if I were being theologically liberal. This belief accelerated when I came to New Zealand and understand free market works in practice while the welfare state doesn't. Eventually I came in contact with more mainstream American evangelical Christian thinkers and conservative pundits with Catholic backgrounds that made me realize that the Asian Christian stand, rather than free market, is in error.
He's an Asian Christian who gets it.