Xi Jinping, still as vice president ... to Santa Claus. The photograph, in which Santa extends his right arm over the shoulders of a smiling Xi, is framed on a table in that cabin in Rovaniemi.

While we adults may play down their excitement by saying Santa is not real, that is not true. Santa Claus is very much real and lives in a village in Finland. Rovaniemi, the home of Santa Claus ...