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- US President Joe Biden said China's economic problems could keep Beijing from invading Taiwan.
- Biden said Chinese President Xi Jinping has his "hands full" with China's economic issues.
- Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has been stepping up military drills around the island.
China's probably too busy with its economic crisis to bother about invading Taiwan, US President Joe Biden said on Sunday.
China's "difficult economic problem" currently is unlikely to cause the country to invade Taiwan, Biden said at a press conference during his state visit to Hanoi in Vietnam, according to a recording on the White House's YouTube channel.