In the Chinese World Atlas published under Mao Zedong in 1960, the Senkaku Islands were treated as part of Okinawa. And, although circumstances changed in 1968, when a survey by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific revealed the seas around the islands to contain an abundance of resources, the periodic tensions that arose were manageable.
到此为止，大陆和台湾都没有表示过反对。在1960年毛泽东时代出版的中文世界地图中，钓鱼岛被视为冲绳的一部分。尽管情况在1968年起了变化——当时，联合国亚太地区经济和社会委员会的一份报告披露，钓鱼岛周围海域蕴藏着丰富的资源——但是不是发生的紧张对峙一直处在可管理的范围内。