By Brian O’Connell Real Money’s Alex Frew McMillan sees covid and continued Beijing crackdowns hanging over the region. There’s no doubt Asian markets disappointed investors in 2021, and questions certainly linger for the new year. Can the Asian Tigers respond to those questions – and to the legions of investors who felt they were promised something better in 2021? TheStreet’s Alex Frew McMillan’s not so sure. “It’s hard to escape the feeling at the end of the year that we are back in much the same position as when it began,” McMillan wrote recently in Real Money. One big issue – Covid still h…