Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Russia-Africa economic and humanitarian forum at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in central Moscow on October 28, 2026. (Photo by Igor IVANKO / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Russia-Africa economic and humanitarian forum at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in central Moscow on October 28, 2026. (Photo by Igor IVANKO / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Russia-Africa economic and humanitarian forum at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in central Moscow on October 28, 2026. (Photo by Igor IVANKO / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye attends the Russia-Africa economic and humanitarian forum at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in central Moscow on October 28, 2026. (Photo by Igor IVANKO / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

TOKYO, JAPAN - OCTOBER 28: Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor, center left, shakes hands with Yoshinobu Tsutsui, chairman of business lobby Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), as he and Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, (not pictured), arrive for a meeting with business representatives at the prime minister's office on October 28, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Pool/Getty Images)

TOKYO, JAPAN - OCTOBER 28: Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, center, and Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor, right, arrive for a meeting with business representatives at the prime minister's office on October 28, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Pool/Getty Images)

TOKYO, JAPAN - OCTOBER 28: (L - R) Levin Holle, economic and financial policy advisor to Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor, Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, and Minoru Kiuchi, Japan's growth strategy minister, during a meeting with business representatives at the prime minister's office on October 28, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Pool/Getty Images)

TOKYO, JAPAN - OCTOBER 28: Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, center right, and Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor, center left, attend a meeting with business representatives at the prime minister's office on October 28, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Pool/Getty Images)