The Treaty of Shimonoseki forced China to cede Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to Japan, pay a huge indemnity, permit the establishment of Japanese industries in four treaty ports, and recognize Japanese hegemony over Korea.
Starbucks is unlikely to cede its leading position in China, the company's fastest-growing major market, to Chinese startup Luckin in 2019, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said in an interview.
"Lei would never cede control," said one banker.
Mr Kalanick could go on temporary leave or cede his position as chief executive, according to two people involved in the situation, putting the future of the tech industry's most valuable private company on the line after months of damaging revelations about its leadership and workplace behaviour.
Thomas Davenport and Julia Kirby warn that humans could, like Kasparov, cede the future to machines too easily.
" And rather than cede the high end to competitors like Stumptown, Blue Bottle or Intelligentsia, Starbucks took them on.
The Dutch, who had colonised Manhattan in 1624, decided in 1667 to cede what is now New York to the British, in exchange for guarantees over their possession of what is now Suriname in Latin America.
These are all live questions today, and they prompt heavy concerns: that we will cede one of the most subtle and human of skills, the evaluation of the gifts and promise of other people, to machines; that the models will get it wrong; that some people will never get a shot in the new workforce.
