Although Tai didn't flinch from condemning the authoritarianism of Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo, he also had harsh things to say about Japanese colonial rule-unlike Lee Teng-hui, who had fond memories of the colonial era.
因為戴國煇雖然不滿兩蔣的獨裁集權，但也同樣對日本殖民政府的嚴酷統治提出批判，有別於李登輝的強烈懷日情結。