Although Han Kuo-yu, presidential candidate for the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang, or KMT, is currently trailing Taiwan's incumbent, Tsai Ing-wen, by more than 15 percentage points, the wave he has unleashed is a new Trump-like political factor in Taiwan that is bound to linger for many years.
Opinion
Taiwan's Han Kuo-yu offers uncomfortable echoes of Donald Trump
Kuomintang candidate's supporters like his raucous, anti-intellectual populism
