This is the one reason I don't mind china taking over kenya. If we favour china over the Europeans we could get them to sneak over weapons like they do for north korea.I don't think he was boasting, its just the reality of the situation that we are still rebuilding the armed forces including airforce and we are also under an arms embargo by UN.
We just need to reverse engineer them once we achieve the capability of producing our own weapons and we could create powerful modern weapons. The reality is the EU and America are xaasids who want to take our resources. China has it's own agendas but are not as arrogant as the US who wasted trillions on their exploitation of foreign nations.