It requires a mindset that can accept an enormous risk of failure, an ability to stick to at least a ten-year plan, and a willingness to continue executing on your plan despite losses early in the J-curve.
While lags are expected (economists speak of a J-curve effect that accounts for the process of adjustment to the new prices in both countries), a two or three year lag in an era of instant communications, cyberspace transactions, transnational production, and airtight supply chains is simply not credible.
One is that the emerging markets are emerging, and by that I mean that there's a very long and well-demonstrated process in history that's kind of an inverted J curve.