Obvious HP for having some of the most odious views on this forum. That being said, without him there’d be basically no coverage of the politics of some major non-Western countries so he does provide something of value compared to a lot of posters of his ilk.
That's true, although I suspect that in many cases if you actually know the countries in question, you'd find his analysis rather ... lacking. I'm not qualified to comment on many of them, but where I do have some knowledge to check his international posts against, I've often found that they consist of faux-neutral presentation of extremely slanted takes. And of course, we're all familiar with his infamous spamming of the Ukraine thread.
I have followed the Malaysia thread(s) at various and I find Cao's posts to be better and much more informative than jaichind's. Obviously it helps that Cao is actually Malaysian, but still. Part of my point is that that is not so rare, another example is Logical's very helpful thread for the recent Indonesian presidential election.
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