Editors’ Picks: Is America overextending itself?

Plus: Extreme weather is brutalizing Asia [Foreign Policy Logo]( [Foreign Policy Editors Picks]( August 24, 2022 | [View in browser]( To read unlimited articles featured in Editors’ Picks, [subscribe today](. SPONSORED BY [GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY]( 1 [Overextended empire?]( Wertheim makes the case for U.S. restraint in Ukraine, Taiwan, and beyond in an [interview]( with FP’s Ravi Agrawal. 2 [Extreme weather.]( temperatures, frequent droughts, torrential rains, and other weather catastrophes have throttled Asia this summer, FP’s Mary Yang [reports]( 3 [Khan’s revolution.]( Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have started the first popular mass democratic movement in Pakistan since the Partition of India, FP’s Azeem Ibrahim [writes]( 4 [Biden’s indifference.](. President Joe Biden has said that Iraq is more stable today than under his predecessor. That isn’t true, David Schenker [writes](. 5 [Food-based foreign policy.]( from Spain to South Korea have embraced gastrodiplomacy to advance their cuisines—and soft power, Fabio Parasecoli [writes]( --------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORED [
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