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.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'nation about to receive cheers' is the wordplay.
'nation' becomes 'iraq' (Iraq is an example).
'about' is a reversal indicator.
'to receive' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cheers' becomes 'ta' (both can mean thank you).
'iraq' back-to-front is 'qari'.
'qari' going 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" .)