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States form images of each other based on assessments of each other's material capabilities or on interpretations of each other's intentions. Images matter in the foreign policy making process since they form popular public opinion on official policies and, in more basic ways, construct people's identity toward other countries. So, states try to make their images favorable in the minds of a foreign audience through their public diplomacy efforts. This Issue Briefing Paper deals with Chinese images of South Korea and discusses how elites and ordinary citizens of China hold South Korea in their political imagination, and what the implications of Chinese images of Korea for Seoul's China policy are. 
 
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