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It's designed for China by China, the western EU limitations are not applicable. As to who will deliver this in the next decades at scale? I can only speculate: China.

According to chargefinder there are hundreds, if not thousands of chargers all over Western EU with 350kW charing at least!

Even 350kw (by far the newest batch) is a fraction of what would be needed here.

Regardless, those station numbers are also misleading. As I wrote such chargers are most often in islands of 10-20 poles so you can divide that number. Plus 350kw is almost always shared per two stations - meaning you get half if both sides of the charger is occupied.

My guess is that charging stations will buffer the power in high discharge capacity battery banks rather than pulling it directly from the grid in real time.

Don’t many Tesla supercharger sites already do that?

On batteries, my understanding is that we’ve been able to charge at these rates for quite a while now, but doing so results in a lot of heat which reduces cycle life.

Have BYD solved that limiting issue?