How to pronounce “kuo” in English

In the same century, Chinese thinker Shen Kuo figured out that moving water shapes the land through erosion, and inferred from fossils that Earth’s climate has changed over time.

In order to create a force powerful enough to overthrow an entrenched government like the Kuomintang, you had to be able to control base areas

Jay Kuo.

So I have one who is the daughter of a nationalist, a Kuomintang, the side that lost the war, the revolution.