Diayou/Senkaku Question: Older and Wiser?

During his historic 1978 trip to Japan, Deng Xiaoping was asked about the question of the Daiyou/Senkaku islands. Deng replied that the question should be put aside so that later and wiser generations could solve this problem. Essentially the same answer was given a few years earlier by Premier Zhou Enlai to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka during Tanaka’s China visit. So, 35 years have passed, and the question seems to be: while this is certainly a later generation, is it a wiser generation? Is the islands question being handled by those of vision and wisdom taking the long view of history? Or is it something else? What do you think of the way this question is being handled by both sides? Post your comments below.