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Brigadier
"Ma also said several times that his ultimate goal is to subvert the state. He outlined an anti-government propaganda campaign, even made preparations to establish a “temporary parliament for the Chinese mainland,” entrusted relevant personnel to draft “laws and institutions” and claimed that he aimed to “subverting the Chinese government with support from overseas.”
This person sounds like he might get off easy by being institutionalized with a lighter prison sentence due to how far he went with being unrealistic. He might be one of the guys who got bullied by his environment so he just hates his society and created a fantasy in which he got revenge on it, recruiting similarly psychotic people to indulge.