Biden, Xi agree to engage even on issues where interests diverge

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Thursday to engage in areas where they both agree and disagree, the White House said, but they were apparently divided over how to ease lingering tensions between the world's two major powers.The agreement was reached during their second phone talks since Biden took office in January, with the White House saying that their discussion touched on the "responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict."Xi, however, was quoted by the country's state-run media as telling Biden that U.S. policy toward …READ FULL ARTICLE