{"id":75771,"date":"2025-12-28T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/28\/myanmar-is-going-to-the-polls-but-its-not-the-people-who-hold-the-power-its-china"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:01:51","slug":"myanmar-is-going-to-the-polls-but-its-not-the-people-who-hold-the-power-its-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75771","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar is going to the polls. But it\u2019s not the people who hold the power \u2013 it\u2019s China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the military pushes ahead with a widely condemned election, Beijing\u2019s priorities are proving decisive<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/24\/myanmars-first-election-since-the-2021-coup-everything-you-need-to-know\">Myanmar\u2019s first election since the 2021 coup: everything you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military has managed to regain momentum in its battle against a determined patchwork of opposition groups, retaking some territory, and pushing ahead with a widely condemned election that begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It is a turnaround for the military, which had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/29\/myanmar-military-junta-totters-as-battalions-surrender\">appeared so beleaguered<\/a> that some dared to question if it could collapse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/28\/myanmar-is-going-to-the-polls-but-its-not-the-people-who-hold-the-power-its-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the military pushes ahead with a widely condemned election, Beijing\u2019s priorities are proving decisiveMyanmar\u2019s first election since the 2021 coup: everything you need to knowMyanmar\u2019s military has managed to regain momentum in its battle against a d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75772,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75771\/revisions\/75772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}