The Chinese decision to let Filipino fishermen back in Panatag Shoal is “an act of ownership,” former senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said yesterday. “Giving permission is an act of ownership, it should not stop our claim of ownership over the shoal,” he told The STAR. The former senator and founder of PDP-- Laban, which fielded then Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte as its standard bearer in the May elections, said the Philippines should consider raising the issue before an international tribunal in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and other applicable pacts.

Echeminada, P., & Romero, P. (2016, November 2). Nene: China decision on shoal an act of ownership. The Philippine Star, pp. 1, 12.