The phrase "engages with current" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing how someone or something interacts with or responds to contemporary issues, trends, or ideas.
Example: "The article engages with current debates on climate change and sustainability."
Alternatives: "interacts with contemporary" or "addresses modern"
This is important when you consider that in China, few native companies are able to present work that engages with current Chinese politics for fear of censorship.
This research engages with current dialogues on innovation districts by providing quantitative evidence to help real-estate professionals, urban designers and city managers to make decisions concerning the shaping of specific industry mixes.
It hardly engages with current global debates around prostitution policy, or the realities of criminalization, or the notion that sex workers may also have demands.
It needs to engage with current debates, however dismaying.
Scientists, for their part, need to be far more engaged with current public debates.
The community extends to the school's 7,000+ alumni, who remain closely engaged with current students.
His project, "Ghosts of Rome," continues his innovative research into how ancient knowledge can engage with current technologies.
EL&IC is, in spirit, similarly chimerical, but is weighed down by Foer's self-conscious decision to engage with current affairs.
I'd wanted to write a novel that, among other things, engaged with current politics and that, in fact, even gestured at a modest prescience.
In recent years the 78ers have used their platform to engage with current activist issues from marriage equality to the detention of asylum seekers.
That the production drew an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests to Lincoln Center just underlined how important it is for opera to engage with current issues.
