Asian nation about to receive cheers (6)
I believe the answer is:
qatari
'asian' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'nation about to receive cheers' is the wordplay.
'nation' becomes 'iraq' (Iraq is an example).
'about' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'to receive' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cheers' becomes 'ta' (both can mean thank you).
'iraq' in reverse letter order is 'qari'.
'qari' enclosing '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" .)