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China was obliged to open major ports to foreign political and economic penetration; Hong Kong was ceded to Britain.
It was dropped at the court of Gaelic kings in favour of English about 900 years ago, perhaps to please an English queen or perhaps to ensure the retention of the English-speaking half of Northumbria ceded to Scotland.
Present-day Azerbaijan was born when Iran ceded the territory to Russia after two wars in the early 19 th century.
The landings were launched from bases ceded to the Japanese by Marshal Pétain’s French colonial officials in Indochina and backed up by new high-performance fighter planes.
Working-level officials were also to consider new steps on terrorist financing and America's perennially troubled public diplomacy efforts in the Muslim world, where NSC staff warned that "we have by and large ceded the court of public opinion" to al Qaeda.