NEW DELHI, October 31 (AP) -- Tibet's Dalai Lama approves of President Clinton's summit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, an aide said today.

The Tibetan spiritual leader believes China should be drawn deeper into involvement with other countries, said Tempa Tsering, spokesman for the Dalai Lama's administration-in-exile in the northern India city of Dharmsala.

"Once you bring them back to the community of nations, you expect them to act according to international standards," Tsering said. "Isolating China is no help."

The Dalai Lama has not commented directly about the summit since Jiang arrived this week for the first Chinese state visit to Washington in 12 years. Clinton welcomed Jiang to Washington on Wednesday.

Some of the Dalai Lama's most fervent supporters in the United States criticized Clinton for closing trade and nuclear deals with China. Protesters dogged Jiang on his stops across the United States, accusing China of human rights abuses in Tibet.

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has promised to name a U.S. "coordinator" for Tibet by Saturday. The Tibetan exiles believe the coordinator's main task should be to pressure the Chinese to discuss Tibet's future directly with the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama fled his Himalayan homeland in 1959 after an abortive uprising against the Chinese troops who seized control of Tibet nine years earlier. About 120,000 Tibetan exiles live in India, and smaller communities live in Europe and North America.