Wasn't this whole "man on the moon" shit faked in a studio? Asking for a friend...

Do you all also get the sense that the Chinese mostly don't give a shit whether we in the west refer to them as a "superpower" or not? That said, one nation to the south west of China (That is clearly not and never will be a "superpower") is always yapping non stop being a superpower. What gives? There has to be a useful lesson somewhere in there that we can learn from...