Asian nation about to receive cheers (6)
I believe the answer is:
qatari
'asian' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'nation about to receive cheers' is the wordplay.
'nation' becomes 'iraq' (Iraq is an example).
'about' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'to receive' is an insertion indicator.
'cheers' becomes 'ta' (both can mean thank you).
'iraq' back-to-front is 'qari'.
'qari' placed around 'ta' is 'QATARI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for qatari that I've seen before include "One from Doha, say" , "Gulf State native" , "National" , "Gulf emirate native" .)