Myanmar's military junta and Chinese officials orchestrated an election that would allow them to continue to helm the country they overtook in 2021.

The army-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is poised for a sweeping victory in a vote critics say is tightly controlled by the junta and designed to entrench military…

With Aung San Suu Kyi sidelined and her hugely popular party dissolved, democracy advocates say the ballot is stacked with military allies.