Ramos loses patience with Duterte’s antagonistic nationalism 

Ramos was influential in convincing Duterte to run for the presidency. Once elected, Duterte’s first words in his inaugural address were to give thanks to the martial law enforcer-turned-People Power Revolution hero.
So when Ramos used the symbolic occasion of the 100th day of the new presidency to mount a campaign of criticism against Duterte’s brand of governance, the administration listened – and did not launch an attack in return.
Ramos used his column in the Manila Bulletin to paint a sobering picture of opportunities lost. “We find our Team Philippines losing in the first 100 days of [Duterte’s] administration – and losing badly. This is a huge disappointment and let-down to many of us.” The cause: President Duterte failed to “hit the ground running, instead being stuck in unending controversies about extrajudicial killings of drug suspects … using cuss-words and insults instead of civilised language.”
The former president also declined to join Duterte’s historic state visit to Beijing – an occasion the special envoy to China would have been expected to join. 
Ramos, a West Point alumnus and personal friend of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, is an advocate of closer Philippine-US military ties as well as a higher Philippine profile in international affairs. 
His resignation as special envoy, then, was only a matter of time.
But now Ramos has written another trenchant criticism of administration policy – this time of President Duterte’s inexplicable refusal to honour the country’s commitment to (and many years of painstaking negotiation of) the landmark Paris Agreement on combating climate change.
The lead paragraph of his October 24 column is as forceful as it gets. “In his consistently frequent insulting diatribes against the US, EU and the UN, in which President Duterte also keeps complaining against the December 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change (crafted by 195 nations, the Philippines included), he is unwittingly shooting himself in the mouth, and also all of us, 101.5 million Filipinos. He may claim that to be more ‘insulting than friendly’ to our long-established allies is part of his God-given ‘destiny’. But, this is obviously wrong, and full of S**T!!!”
Obviously, Duterte’s continued use of undiplomatic or downright rude language has got under Ramos’ skin again; he is reduced to using the same enemy-creating rhetoric.
But the larger point is Duterte’s decision to jettison the decades of ultimately successful climate change negotiation by Manila in order to indulge his idea that the West has yet again managed to put countries like the Philippines at a disadvantage. The truth is, President Duterte is wrong. Using capitals for emphasis, Ramos argued:
“IT IS CLEAR ENOUGH (AND SHOULD BE READILY UNDERSTOOD BY LEADERS) THAT THE PARIS AGREEMENT DOES NOT IMPOSE EMISSION REDUCTION ON THE PHILIPPINES. SHOULD ANY COUNTRY DECIDE TO EVENTUALLY BECOME A PARTY TO THE AGREEMENT, IT WILL ONLY BE ASKED TO SUBMIT ITS NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS, WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY SUCCESSIVE 5-YEAR CLIMATE PLANS THAT WE CAN DETERMINE ON OUR OWN, ACCORDING TO OUR NATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, AND DOMESTIC CAPACITY.”
In other words, President Duterte misunderstands the Paris Agreement. And ex-president Ramos has had enough.