In a commentary by US Bureau Chief Nirmal Ghosh on the death of an African American at the hands of a white police officer, he wrote that the killing of Mr George Floyd is also a watershed in other respects, with the ramifications yet to fully play out. He cited Dr Adam Garfinkle, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the RSIS, who wrote: “Racially charged civil unrest in the United States will affect the November election, undermine military morale if the President orders military force to smother protests, and further estrange Americans from supporting an active and constructive US role in global affairs… The George Floyd moment may therefore be justifiably counted as a significant historical inflection point.”