It’s Tuesday, June 30th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson and Timothy Reed
China to add 435 ships to Navy by 2030
China’s control of the high seas is on the rise.
Global Times reports that China’s shipbuilding industry produced 16 million tons of ships last year — an increase of 46% year over year. China is handling 57% of the global shipbuilding annually.
By contrast, the United States retains around 0.04% of the global shipbuilding capacity at present. Currently, China is producing the equivalent dead weight in ships of 160 aircraft carriers per year. China’s military plan is to add 435 ships to their naval capacity by 2030 in addition to their current fleet of 395 ships.
United States Naval Institute News has reported that America has 291 battle force ships in operation — exactly the number it had in 2004. The Pentagon has revealed that China has targeted a fleet of nine aircraft carriers in nine years from now to compete with the 11 carrier fleet of the United States.
China’s GDP is 7.3% vs, America’s GDP of 2.2%
In God’s providence, China has improved its Gross Domestic Product by 7.3% per year over the last 20 years. By contract, the United States has averaged a GDP improvement of just 2.2% per year over the same timeframe.
This year, the International Monetary Fund is forecasting a 4.4% Gross Domestic Product bump for China and a 2.3% bump for the United States.
China builds 3 million drones and increases nuclear warheads by 77%
China’s drone production is approaching three million per year now. By contrast, the U.S. military is producing 120,000 drones per year, with a plan to increase to about 1 million per year in the next year or two.
China’s nuclear warhead buildup continues as well — now at 620 warheads which is up from 350 in 2020. That’s a 77% increase which would put the nation with 1,100 nuclear warheads in five years.
The United States and Russia have each deployed 1,770 nuclear warheads.
Job 12:9 and 23 asks the question: “Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? … He makes nations great, and destroys them; He enlarges nations, and guides them.”
White House affirms parents, opposes Johnson Amendment
The White House Religious Liberty Commission issued its final report over the weekend.
The report noted that “parents bear primary responsibility for the formation of their children. … This principle is deeply rooted in American law, tradition, and constitutional understanding. However, witnesses testified that government actors have frequently infringed upon the fundamental rights of parents to raise their children in accordance with their beliefs. Parental rights deserve greater clarity and stronger protection.”
The report also recommended “federal legislation repealing the Johnson Amendment.” The commission called this ”an unconstitutional restriction on the religious speech of houses of worship and faith-based non-profits.”
The commission was particularly concerned about “physicians, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, patients, and religious healthcare providers regarding conscience conflicts involving abortion, sterilization, assisted suicide, gender-related interventions, vaccine mandates.”
Trump: Democrat Party is embracing Communism
Last Friday, President Donald Trump spoke on religious liberty to the Faith and Freedom Coalition. He warned that the Democrat Party is turning towards communism.
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TRUMP: “I looked at some of the people that got elected the other night in New York. These are people that want to destroy our country. They hate our country. They hate our people. They hate the Democrat Party.
“The Democrat Party is in big trouble. This isn’t stopping with New York. These are not social ‘Dumocrats.’ These are hardcore, godless communists. They don’t believe in God. This is the most serious threat to our country since its existence, in my opinion.”
Homosexual pride marches in San Fran, New York City, and Ukraine
Pride comes before a fall. And the month of June featured more pride events around the world.
Indeed, 56,000 people participated in San Francisco’s homosexual pride march over the weekend, and news reports indicate more than a million showed up on Sunday for New York City’s event.
Plus, 5,000 people showed up at last week’s homosexual pride march in Kiev, Ukraine. That’s the largest turnout since the start of the war. Ukraine has been celebrating homosexuality with these events since 2013.
Meanwhile, since June 2012, Moscow banned all homosexual pride events for a hundred years. The largest homosexual pride event in Asia occurs in Taipei, Taiwan each year — attracting some 150,000 people. And the Chinese government shut down Shanghai homosexual pride marches in 2020.
How sexual perversion is affirmed in corporate America
Here In the United States, the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign lost 65% of its Fortune 500 company participants in its Corporate Equality Index for 2026.
Companies like Target, Amazon, Walmart, and Verizon agreed to forego all external benchmarking.
However, the companies continue to provide the same level of benefits to their homosexual employees. Specifically, 93% offer gender-identity non-discrimination policies. That’s about the same as the last two years.
Marriage in decline
Marriage is on the decline in America.
Today, only 46% of adults are married, down from 72% in 1960. Incredibly, 29% of older adults have never married. That’s up from 7% in 1960. This may be a first in human history.
Hebrews 13:4 declares this: “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
Oregon withdraws $90,000 fine against counselor who didn’t affirm perversion
And finally, Frank Canepa, a Catholic counselor from Oregon, won a legal victory after being persecuted for his Judeo-Christian beliefs, reports the Daily Citizen.
Canepa was fined almost $90,000 for not affirming sexual perversion. One of his clients, whom he had been helping professionally for two and a half years, brought up homosexual relationships 44 times and finally demanded that he personally bless her homosexual relationship which he refused to do.
Sadly, the state of Oregon seeks to prohibit people of faith from sharing their convictions with those who are homosexual.
But Jonathan Scruggs of Alliance Defending Freedom stated, “The government can’t target counselors for their views and force people to say things that go against their core convictions.”
Thankfully, Oregon was forced to withdraw the outrageous fine.
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