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You may know better but continuing to use China as the example - weren't they also repeatedly conquored and resettled by steppe people?

Eh, I guess it depends on who you consider to be Chinese, and what period of history you're talking about?

For the most part the steppe people like the Turkic or the Mongolians did the majority of what we consider conquering in China in the 13th-14th century.

Before that they didn't really comprise a large threat unless you are going much further back in history. If we are examining the Han dynasty, who shares a piece of history around the same time as the Romans, then yes. We don't exactly have a bunch of primary sources, but we can tell a lot by the distribution of dna and language that they historically occupied large aspects of northern China, and are related to modern Manchu people's, and those who hail from Manchu people like the modern Koreans.

Like, not only have they not had a 5000 year historic settlement but they have had as chaotic history of conquest and resettlement as just about anyone in history.

If we are speaking of the migration and conquest carried out by the Han, it's not even really been hundreds. In the 19th century during the Taiping rebellion the Han started a civil war/genocide that killed around 30 million people. You get some pretty contextual quotes that kind of put into perspective the ethnic conflict native to China ""China is the China of the Chinese. We compatriots should identify ourselves with the China of the Han Chinese."